TOWN OF EAST TROY v. SOO LINE R. CO.

No. 79-2120.

653 F.2d 1123 (1980)

TOWN OF EAST TROY, a municipal Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. SOO LINE RAILROAD COMPANY, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided October 8, 1980.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied December 3, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hugh C. Griffin, Chicago, Ill., for defendant-appellant.

John L. Maier, Jr., Rockford, Ill., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before CUMMINGS and BAUER, Circuit Judges, and EAST, District Judge.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied December 3, 1980.

EAST, Senior District Judge.

The Soo Line Railroad Company (Soo Line) appeals the judgment of the District Court, 476 F.Supp. 252, entered on June 14, 1979 pursuant to a jury verdict of $500,000 in favor of the Town of East Troy, Walworth County, Wisconsin (the Town). The verdict was based on the Town's costs to remedy a ground water pollution problem caused by Soo...

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