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RICHARDSON v. BYRD

No. 45020.

215 So.2d 424 (1968)

W.C. RICHARDSON v. Lawrence BYRD and wife, Iva Lee Byrd.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

November 4, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Boyd, Holifield & Harper, Laurel, Brunini, Everett, Grantham & Quin, Jackson, for appellant.

Walker & Sullivan, Laurel, for appellees.

GILLESPIE, Presiding Justice.

Lawrence Byrd and his wife, Iva Lee Byrd, plaintiffs below and appellees here, filed suit in the County Court of Jones County, Mississippi, against W.C. Richardson for damages sustained by plaintiffs when oil, salt water and other substances were allowed to escape from the site of an oil well and flow over land belonging to plaintiffs. The jury returned a verdict of $3,000 actual and punitive damages against W.C. Richardson. Richardson...

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