Reader v. Magma-Superior Copper Company

HAYS, Chief Justice.

Appellants bring suit against six alleged owners or operators of copper smelters in Arizona and claim to represent a class consisting of all “persons living in Maricopa County who have occasion to and in fact do breathe and visualize air polluted by defendants.” This class is specifically described in appellants’ motion for determination as “[that area] bounded by the Superstition Mountains on the east; the White Tank Mountains on the west; the McDowell Mountains on the north; and the South Mountains on the south. The class of people represented by the plaintiffs herein…