HAMMONDS v. INGRAM INDUSTRIES, INC.

No. 81-5817.

716 F.2d 365 (1983)

C.H. HAMMONDS and his wife Dean Hammonds, Billy Watson and his wife Donnie Watson, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. INGRAM INDUSTRIES, INC., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided September 6, 1983.

Rehearing Denied November 1, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James G. Apple (argued), Stites, McElwain & Fowler, Louisville, Ky., for defendant-appellant.

Thomas L. Osborne (argued), Osborne, Deatherage & Fletcher, Paducah, Ky., James A. Harris, Jr., Paducah, Ky., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before MERRITT and JONES, Circuit Judges, and PECK, Senior Circuit Judge.


JOHN W. PECK, Senior Circuit Judge.

Ingram Industries, Inc. appeals from a judgment entered on a jury verdict in a trespass action for damages of $345,000 arising from Ingram's dredging sand from several islands in the northern half of the Ohio River which had been patented by C.H. Hammonds and Billy Watson. On appeal, Ingram advances numerous contentions, both legal and factual, concerning the existence of the islands, the nature of the trespass involved in the dredging...

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