Legal Opinion
Town of East Troy, a Municipal Corporation v. Soo Line Railroad Company
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 3, 1980No. 79-2120PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
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 Line’s negligence.
We note jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and affirm.
BACKGROUND
On July 16, 1974 at about 3:15 P.M., a tank car and 18 other cars being transported by Soo Line through an unincorporated area known as Lake Beulah…
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