COMMONWEALTH ex rel. CHIDSEY v. BLACK et al.


363 Pa. 231 (1949)

Commonwealth ex rel. Chidsey, Attorney General, Appellant, v. Black et al.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

November 21, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles E. Kenworthey, with him Harold A. Stewart, Francis J. Gafford, Deputy Attorney General and T. McKeen Chidsey, Attorney General, for appellant.

James Gregg, with him Portser, Gregg & McConnell, Douglass D. Storey and Thos. E. Whitten, for appellees.

Before MAXEY, C.J., DREW, LINN, STERN, PATTERSON, STEARNE and JONES, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. CHIEF JUSTICE MAXEY, November 21, 1949:

The Commonwealth on the relation of the Attorney General filed a Bill in Equity in the Common Pleas Court of Dauphin County praying that an injunction be issued, preliminarily until hearing, and permanently thereafter, restraining defendant's strip mining operation in a tract of land in Westmoreland County, in order to prevent the discharge of acid mine drainage and other industrial wastes into the clear waters...

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