WATSON v. GREAT LAKES PIPELINE COMPANY

No. 10781.

182 N.W.2d 314 (1970)

Clair WATSON and Viola Watson, Plaintiffs and Respondents, v. GREAT LAKES PIPELINE COMPANY, a Corporation, and Williams Brothers Pipeline Company, a Corporation, Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of South Dakota.

December 15, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Milton Buechler, Lennox, George Weisensee, Sioux Falls, for plaintiffs and respondents.

Woods, Fuller, Shultz & Smith and Timothy J. Nimick and Davenport, Evans, Hurwitz & Smith and Robert Heege, Sioux Falls, for defendants and appellants.


BIEGELMEIER, Judge.

Plaintiffs brought this action for damages to their real estate which was platted into lots near the city limits of Sioux Falls. Their claim was that defendants, in operating their pipeline and oil tank storage business near plaintiffs' premises, had negligently discharged petroleum products in such quantities as to constitute a public nuisance and as a result did contaminate and pollute the waters under...

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