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Caretti V Broring Building Company: The Sewering And Planning Of A City, Sheba Newman-Blount
Caretti V Broring Building Company: The Sewering And Planning Of A City, Sheba Newman-Blount
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Caretti v Broring Building Company was a case decided by the Court of Appeals of Maryland in 1926. Louis and Lucia Caretti sued the Broring Building Company in 1925 to enjoin them from polluting a stream that flowed through the Carettis’ property with sewage from their sewer system. The Carettis sued for an injunction to stop the operation of the sewer and further pollution of the stream. The Court of Appeals reversed the trial court ruling and decided in the Carettis’s favor, granting them an injunction against Broring.
The Carettis’ case occurred at a time when Baltimore was undergoing several …