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SPRINGER v. JOSEPH SCHLITZ BREWING COMPANY

No. 73-2360.

510 F.2d 468 (1975)

David SPRINGER et al., Appellants, v. JOSEPH SCHLITZ BREWING COMPANY, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided January 14, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jonathan R. Harkavy, Greensboro, N.C. (Norman B. Smith, Smith, Carrington, Patterson, Follin & Curtis, Greensboro, N.C., on brief), for appellants.

W. P. Sandridge, Winston-Salem, N.C. (Charles F. Vance, Jr., Winston-Salem, N.C., on brief), for appellee.

Before WINTER, BUTZNER and WIDENER, Circuit Judges.

BUTZNER, Circuit Judge:

This North Carolina diversity case raises the question of the liability of an industry to downstream riparian owners when its wastes overload a city's treatment facilities and cause water pollution. The plaintiffs, David and Diana Springer, own an interest in a large farm on the Yadkin River. Seeking an injunction and compensatory and punitive damages, they contend that, beginning in late 1969, wastes from a new brewery owned by Joseph B. Schlitz...

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