Virginian Railway Co. v. Echols

In accordance with the prayer of the original and amended bills in this cause, upon a preliminary hearing the court granted an injunction inhibiting the defendant railway company from maintáining in an old channel of Roanoke river water alleged to be stagnant and injurious to the health of the plaintiff and the community generally, and commanded the defendant to abate the same as a nuisance. This action of the lower court is the subject of review upon this appeal.

In the year 1906, the defendant company constructed its line of railroad through Montgomery county, and through a portion of the…