PERMANENTE METALS CORPORATION v. PISTA

No. 11019.

154 F.2d 568 (1946)

PERMANENTE METALS CORPORATION v. PISTA et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

March 29, 1946.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thelen, Marrin, Johnson & Bridges, Thomas K. McCarthy, and Courtney L. Moore, all of San Francisco, Cal., for appellant.

J. T. Harrington and Bardin & Harrington, all of Salinas, Cal., and George M. Naus, of San Francisco, Cal., for appellees.

Before GARRECHT, MATHEWS, and HEALY, Circuit Judges.


HEALY, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment awarding damages for injury to a fruit crop.

Appellant operates a plant in the Salinas Valley, California, where dolomite ore is calcined. Located within a distance of a mile from the plant is appellees' apricot orchard. In 1943, during the blossoming or pollination period of the fruit, dust discharged from the stacks of appellant's plant settled over the surrounding terrain within a radius of approximately...

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