Ottawa Gas-light & Coke Co. v. Thompson

This was an action on the case brought by the plaintiff below against the defendant below on the 26th of December, 1860, for injury to the water of plaintiff’s well, occasioned by defendant having “.suffered to flow from its gas works, and to be deposited and placed in and around and near the same, certain noxious and offensive substances and materials used in and about the manufacture of gas and coke, and also certain oily, tarry, resinous, gaseous, and deleterious substances and materials so used in said manufacture, which said substances and materials were absorbed by and entered into the…