SHELL OIL CO. v. SLADE

No. 10353.

133 F.2d 518 (1943)

SHELL OIL CO., Inc., v. SLADE et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied March 12, 1943.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas H. Watkins, of Jackson, Miss., William Saunders Henley, of Hazlehurst, Miss., and Harry McCall, of New Orleans, La., for appellant.

Ross R. Barnett and P. Z. Jones, both of Jackson, Miss., and Frank F. Mize, of Forest, Miss., for appellee.

Before SIBLEY, HUTCHESON, and HOLMES, Circuit Judges.


HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

The complaint for death damages resulting from an automobile collision in a fog was in two counts. The first count charged negligence, the second maintenance of a nuisance. The gravamen of both counts was that: for a long period of time prior to the injury, defendant had permitted the discharge from its plant into an open drainage ditch and thence into a canal along the side of the highway of large quantities of very hot water with the result...

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