PHILLIPS v. ROLLINS-PURLE, INC.

No. 66703.

387 So.2d 1148 (1980)

Henry PHILLIPS et al. v. ROLLINS-PURLE, INC.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearings Denied October 6, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dennis R. Whalen, Baton Rouge, for plaintiff-applicant.

Donald S. Zuber, Seale, Smith & Phelps, Baton Rouge, for defendants-respondents.


DENNIS, Justice.

The principal issue for review in this crop damage suit is whether plaintiffs, home vegetable farmers, are entitled to damages for loss of use of their property for farming purposes in the years after their 1971 crops were destroyed by herbicide escaping from defendant's chemical disposal plant.

Plaintiffs, Henry and Alma Goodlow Phillips, owned a 7½ acre tract of land upon which they resided and grew vegetables for sale and family consumption...

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