ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the cases of Leeds and Barnsley. New sewerage network plans were commissioned by Leeds Corporation and a scheme from John Wignall Leather in 1848-9 was eventually accepted that would install mains sewers and connections for drainage district formed by the townships of central Leeds, Hunslet and Holbeck. The dispute over Leeds's sewage pollution of the River Aire provides the first of the two disputes described in this chapter displaying a series of delays allowed by Chancery in face of river sewage pollution dilemma. The interests of the public and the landowners are paramount to any right or interest of the town of Barnsley. Barnsley is another English town of the West Riding of Yorkshire. For both Leeds and Barnsley, Chancery was called upon to make judicial decisions about the rights and wrongs of the disputes and, thereby, fairly and justly apply the principles of equitable law in determining the liabilities of the suits: this was duly achieved.
