WALSH v. STONINGTON WATER POLLUTION CONTROL AUTHORITY

(SC 15977)

250 Conn. 443 (1999)

JOSEPH WALSH, JR., ET AL. v. TOWN OF STONINGTON WATER POLLUTION CONTROL AUTHORITY ET AL.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Officially released August 24, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timothy S. Fisher, with whom were Patrick Caruso and, on the brief, Charles Ray, for the appellants (defendants).

Gilbert Shasha, with whom was Conrad Ost Seifert, for the appellees (plaintiffs).

Mary-Michelle U. Hirschoff filed a brief for the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities as amicus curiae.

John E. Hudson filed a brief for the Sierra Club as amicus curiae.

Callahan, C. J., and Norcott, Katz, Palmer and Peters, JS.


Opinion

NORCOTT, J.

The defendants, the town of Stonington water pollution control authority and the town of Stonington,1 appeal from a jury verdict in favor of the plaintiffs, Joseph Walsh, Jr., Claire Walsh, James Stewart and Ruth Stewart, awarding them damages in the framework of a common-law private nuisance cause of action for harm caused by odors emanating from the defendants' operation of a sewage treatment plant...

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