Legal Opinion
Scheufler v. General Host Corp.
District Court, D. Kansas
Decided October 24, 1995No. Civil Action 91-1053-FGTPublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
THEIS, District Judge.
This is a nuisance action brought by several landowners and some of their tenants who claimed that the groundwater underlying their properties was polluted by salt which escaped from the American Salt plant in Lyons, Kansas, and into the Cow Creek Aquifer. At the relevant time, the salt plant was owned by a wholly owned subsidiary of the defendant, General Host. Trial of this matter resulted in a verdict for the plaintiffs on their claims for lost crop profits resulting from the inability to irrigate. After a verdict was reached on the issue of actual…
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