STATE EX REL. SHEVIN v. TAMPA ELECTRIC COMPANY

No. 72-479.

291 So.2d 45 (1974)

STATE of Florida ex rel. Robert L. SHEVIN, As Attorney General, Appellant, v. TAMPA ELECTRIC COMPANY, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied March 26, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., Kenneth F. Hoffman, Asst. Atty. Gen., and John C. Bottcher, Special Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, for appellant.

Robert P. Murray, of Holland & Knight, Lakeland, for appellee.


McNULTY, Judge.

This is an ecology suit predicated on public nuisance.1

The Attorney General seeks injunctive relief against Tampa Electric Company (TECO) alleging that discharges from TECO's generating plants in Hillsborough County release sulfur dioxide, sulfur trioxide and other noxious and deleterious chemicals which, through the process of adsorption, commingles with air and its normal particles. In turn, he says, the contaminated...

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