Lever Bros. Co. v. Langdoc

How courts have described this case

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• holding Lever Brothers liable for trespass when fatty, greasy substance unlawfully released into public sewer system seeped into neighbor's basement and caused damage
• finding that defendant’s release of noxious materials into the city sewer system that eventually entered plaintiff’s property constituted a negligent trespass
• noting as a novel issue whether the entry of noxious material onto one's property constitutes a trespass

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).