Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1919-10-17
POLLUTED WATER
KILLED STOCK
This Is An Allegation Set Up
By w. c. Chase In Injunction
Proceedings
WOODEN Company Temporarily En-
joined From Allowing Substances
to Flow Into Stream

| One of the first cases where mill
in Eastern Connecticut has been en-
joined from allowing matter to flow
into stream came up in the superior
court in Putnam last Friday after
noon when Judge Haines granted a
temporary injunction against the Da-
Wis 4 Brown Wooden Company of Kill
lingly Center. The prayer for an in
junction was made by Walter G.
Chase of Killingly. represent by At
torney Harry f. Back of Danielson.
The wooden company operates what
is known as the Chase mill at East
Killingly. The temporary injunction
enjoins the company from allowing
what the petitioner represents as nox-
| ious chemical substances from flowing
into the stream known asathe White
stone brook near where it joins the
Assawa river An attachment of S.
600 is allowed in connection with the
injunction.
In his complaint against the COM
pany Mr.. Chase alleges that noxious
chemical substance and fluids are
carried down said brook through the
plaintiffs land and in times of high
water overflow with the water upon
the plaintiffs land and stand upon the
said land in stagnant pools and
thereby greatly damage the plaintiffs
said land.
Before April 1, 1919. the plaintiff
had watered his stock from said brook
and continued to do so until about
August Is, 1919.
During June, July and August,
1919, fifteen head of plaintiffs stock
were i'll, and three of them died from
poisoning from drinking the water of
said brook and from said cause all of
the plaintiffs dairy stock shrunk alb
normally in the amount of milk pro-
duced.
The plaintiff was obliged to take his
said stock out of the mowings and
pastures bordering upon said brook
and where there was ample feed and
procure food for them elsewhere at a
great expense for labor and for ma
terial to himself.
The plaintiff has been for two
months and is unable to use the wa
ter in said brook for his stock and is
unable to use the feed in the NOW
ings and pastures bordering said
brook.
By the loss of his said three cows
| the plaintiff was damaged six hun
dred dollars; by the damage to his
stock by said illness the plaintiff was
damaged two thousand dollars, by the
! loss of milk by the said shrinking of
his said dairy stock, the plaintiff was
damaged two thousand dollars; by
providing additional feed for his said
stock and by the loss of the feed on
the lands bordering said stream and
by the loss occasioned by additional
labor in caring for his stock else
where than upon his own land border
ing said brook, the plaintiff has been
damaged two thousand dollars.
Because of the said mill and the
fouling of said water, the water OF
said brook where it enters the plain
tiff's farm and throughout the entire
course through the same is so foul and
unwholesome and dangerous that ne
has been and is unable to use 1t OF
the adjoining land for his stock.
On or about August ID, 1919, the
plaintiff notified the defendant Of this
injury to the water, and requested
him to desist from any such use OF the
brook hereafter, but the defendant
has, Notwithstanding, continued said
nuisance to the present time.
The plaineiff already has been dam
aged to the extent of six thousand
dollars and if said nuisance is con
tinued permanently, it will ruin sale
farm which the plaintiff has leased
and has contracted to buy.
The plaintiff has been and will b.
irreparably injured.
The plaintiff has no adequate rem
edy at law.