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LEAF RIVER FOREST PRODUCTS, INC. v. FERGUSON

No. 92-CA-00387-SCT.

662 So.2d 648 (1995)

LEAF RIVER FOREST PRODUCTS, INC., Great Northern Nekoosa Corporation and Georgia-Pacific Corporation v. Thomas Dixon FERGUSON, Jr. and Bonnie Jane Ferguson.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

October 19, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lee Davis Thames, Butler Snow O'Mara Stevens & Cannada, Jackson, W. Wayne Drinkwater Jr., Lake Tindall & Thackston, Jackson, Joe Sam Owen, Owen Galloway & Clark, Gulfport, for Appellant.

John M. Deakle, Hattiesburg, Patrick W. Pendley, Plaquemine, LA; Lawrence E. Abernathy, III, Laurel, Curtis R. Hussey, Hattiesburg, for Appellee.

Luther T. Munford, Phelps Dunbar Firm, Jackson, Carlton W. Reeves, Jackson, John H. Price, Jr., Price & Zirulnik, Jackson, for Amicus Curiae.

EN BANC.

PITTMAN, Justice, for the Court:

Eleven plaintiffs sued Georgia-Pacific Corporation, Great Northern Nekoosa Corporation, Leaf River Corporation, and Leaf River Forest Products, Inc., in Jackson County Circuit Court, alleging that the defendants had, through operation of the Leaf River Paper Mill, discharged harmful substances into the Leaf and Pascagoula Rivers, thereby causing the plaintiffs personal injury and property damage. After filing two amended complaints...

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