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LEAF RIVER FOREST PRODUCTS, INC. v. SIMMONS

No. 91-CA-00380-SCT.

697 So.2d 1083 (1996)

LEAF RIVER FOREST PRODUCTS, INC., Great Northern Nekoosa Corporation and Donald R. Hubbard v. Wesley M. SIMMONS.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

December 12, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard A. Meserve, Covington & Burling, Washington, DC; Ivan K. Fong, Covington & Burling, Washington, DC; Lee Davis Thames, J. Collins Wohner, Jr., Butler Snow O'Mara Stevens & Cannada, Jackson; W. Wayne Drinkwater, Jr., Lake Tindall & Thackston, Jackson, for Appellants.

John M. Deakle, Hattiesburg; Lawrence E. Abernathy, III, Laurel; Curtis R. Hussey, Hattiesburg; Patrick W. Pendley, Plaquemine, LA.

En Banc.

PRATHER, Presiding Justice, for the Court:

I. INTRODUCTION

Great Northern Nakoosa Corporation, Leaf River Forest Products, Inc., and Donald R. Hubbard appeal from an adverse judgment in the Circuit Court of Greene County in the amount of $20,000 for nuisance and trespass, $20,700 for the loss of value to property, and $1,000,000 in punitive damages. This case involves the riparian rights of Wesley Simmons, a land owner downstream from a mill which diverts...

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