GUTHRIE v. ALABAMA BY-PRODUCTS COMPANY

Civ. A. No. 71-21.

328 F.Supp. 1140 (1971)

T. W. GUTHRIE et al., Plaintiffs, v. ALABAMA BY-PRODUCTS COMPANY, a corporation, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. Alabama, S. D.

June 21, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roscoe B. Hogan, Hogan & Smith, L. Drew Redden, Rogers, Howard, Redden & Mills, Charles E. Clark, Frank M. Bainbridge, Bainbridge & Mims, Birmingham, Ala., for plaintiffs.

William B. Moore, Jr., Rushton, Stokely, Johnston & Garrett, Montgomery, Ala., for Koppers Company, Inc.

E. M. Zeidman, Birmingham, Ala., for Alabama Oxygen Company.

Robert G. Tate, Thomas, Taliaferro, Forman, Burr & Murray, Birmingham, Ala., for Bessemer Galvanizing Works, U. S. Steel Corp., E. I. DuPont deNemours & Co., Republic Steel Corp.

L. Murray Alley, F. J. Gale, III, Cabaniss, Johnston, Gardner & Clark, Birmingham, Ala., for Woodward Corp., McWane Cast Iron Pipe Co., Alabama By-Products Co., Chicago Bridge & Iron Co., Hayes International Corp.

Charles H. Volz, Jr., Volz, Capouano, Wampold & Prestwood, Montgomery, Ala., for Birmingham Hide & Tallow Co.

John H. Morrow, Macbeth Wagnon, Jr., Bradley, Arant, Rose & White, Birmingham, Ala., for Vulcan Materials Company, Swift Agricultural Chemicals Corp.; U. S. Pipe & Foundry Co.; Stockham Valves & Fittings, Inc.; Clow Corp.; Allied Chemical Corp.

W. B. Fernambucq, Huie, Fernambucq & Stewart, Birmingham, Ala., for Peabody Coal Co.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

LYNNE, District Judge.

Plaintiffs, as lower riparian landowners, seek damages and injunctive relief for alleged water pollution.

This action was filed on behalf of some 65 named plaintiffs "and all others similarly situated." Plaintiffs allege that they are riparian landowners along the Warrior River, a navigable waterway, and some of its tributary creeks which run through the industrial valley of Birmingham. The defendants named...

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