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HOMEWOOD FISHING CLUB v. ARCHER DANIELS MIDLAND CO.

No. 4-92-0092.

605 N.E.2d 1140 (1992)

239 Ill. App.3d 102

179 Ill.Dec. 126

The HOMEWOOD FISHING CLUB, An Illinois Not for Profit Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. ARCHER DANIELS MIDLAND COMPANY, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, Fourth District.

Rehearing Denied January 27, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wayne L. Bickes and Kurt B. Bickes, Bickes & Bickes, Ltd., and A. James Shafter and James E. Peckert, Kehart, Shafter, Hughes & Webber, P.C., Decatur, for defendant-appellant.

Harlan Heller, Heller, Holmes & Associates, P.C., Mattoon, and Kenneth Baughman, Monticello, for plaintiff-appellee.

Justice LUND delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) appeals the denial of its post-trial motion following a jury verdict in favor of plaintiff, the Homewood Fishing Club (Homewood), for $3,750,000 in compensatory and punitive damages, based upon acts or omissions of ADM which allegedly caused pollution of a small shallow lake owned by Homewood. We reverse.

ADM's west plant is located in Decatur on a 25-acre site...

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