Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-11-17
GRAVEL COMPANY SEEKS
TO STOP USE OF SEWER
Chancery Suit Instituted Against
City and Adjacent
Landowner.
MAY SEEK COURT INJUNCTION
Claim Drainage From Former Town
OF Highland Park Empties Directly
on Its Property, Causing Great
Damage and Preventing Its Use.

Papers filed in the Chancerv r,our,
yesterday by the Richmond Sand An,
Gravel Company. Inc, against the cit,
OF itlchmond and the Richmond Lane
nu ,"iproVemrnt company petition the
court TO cnjoin the defendants. from
cmptying and .depositing sewage in q
creek which runs through the com.
plalnants property In tho northern
part OF the city.
The bill sets forth tina, on August
10, 1911, tho Richmond Sand and Grave
Company bought from the Richmond
Locomotive Works 1917 acres Of land
adjacent to Highland Park. Shortl,
afterwards. IL is claimed, the town o,
Highland Park constructed large
sewer which emptics into a deep gully
that runs through the complainant's
property. nolluting the waters OF wha,
lows down ravinc for a distance OF
about 5000 feet TO Shockoc Creek.
WAS CONSTRUCTORS UNDER
PROTEST OF PETITIONERS
II is set forth further that the sewer
was made to empty on the complain
ants property under protest from the
petitioners: that II has rendered the
stream which flows through tho prop
crty offensive TO tho smell and dan
gcrous To health and that 1t has made
the property OH both sides Of the creek
long distance unsuitable TO live OF
build upon.
The complainant is engaged In the
business of furnishing sand and gravel
TO the city and to contractors. This
gravel Is taken from deposits on the
tract OF land In question. The com
plant Is made to the court that tho
pollution from the sewer has com
pletely destroyed" the value of the
ya In ,11v OF 81,
company. it is claimed, have refused
TO work under the present unsanitary
conditions. causing n loss to the com
pany Of many thousands of dollars
The court Is asked. In view of these
circumstances. to enjoin the city Of
Richmond. which since annexation. is
the corporate authority charged with
responsibility for the sewer, from
emptying or casting it's sewerage into
any stream into or through which it
will be carried into or through the
conlplainants propertg- The COM
piaiiiant prays also to be allowed to
recover for such damages as IL might
suffer from the causes referred to,
after the filing of the present petit
ton.
Attorneys Samuel A. Anderson and
Hill Carter have been retained by the
Richmond Sand and Gravel Company,
and fled the necessary papers yes
ter'lay in the Chancery Court. The
action for the present Is in The form
of simple suit in chancery, and un-
less application is made for an mme-
diatc restraining order it will be
placed on the docket for hearing OH
the first Monday In December. 1t is
understood that the complainant will
ask for temporary Injunction.
The Richmond Land and Improve.
ment Company is made a party de-
PENDANT to the suit. with the city, be-
cause II is the owner OF tract OF
$40 acres. which the complainant sold
to It from the. original tract 1t pur-
chased from the Richmond Locomo-
tive Works. The Richmond Land and
section of the original tract that Is
adjacent to Highland Park, and is.
making use or the sewer complained
of