Tuesday, November 5, 2019

Chemicals Dumped into Stream Did Indeed Damage J.L. Little's Farm, Cattle, Nov. 5, 1919

From The Hickory Daily Record, Nov. 5, 1919

Local Damage Case Settled at Newton

The case of J.L. Little against the Hickory Hosiery Mills was compromised in Catawba superior court without going before the jury. Each party will pay his own costs and Mr. Little gets $2,250 damages by agreement.

The action grew out of the emptying of dye wash into a branch that flows through Mr. Little’s land. He alleges that the water injured his land and cattle, some of them dying as a result.

The defense claimed that the dye water was harmless and that any chemicals it might contain were in such small quantities as not to be injurious. The case will be of much interest throughout the country, as conditions here doubtless obtain at many other places.

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