Superior Court of Pennsylvania April 23, 1900, Appeal, No. 87 (Sloan v. James)

Opinion by

W. D. Porter, J.,

This was a bill in equity filed by plaintiffs, alleging that the defendants were discharging large quantities of filthy and polluted water from an artesian well, and offensive matter from a slaughter house into a stream, which, below said point of discharge, flowed through plaintiffs’ land, and that, as a consequence, the said stream which before had flowed through