Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. v. Portland Gas Light Co.

HALE, District Judge.

These cases, consolidated for appeal, come before this court on exception by the plaintiffs to the granting of a nonsuit by the United States District Court for the District of Maine. Each plaintiff, by its declaration, alleges that the defendant corporation, in the process of manufacturing, selling, and distributing illuminating gas at its plant on West Commercial street, Portland, Me., had large quantities of oils, gas waste, sludge, and other materials, liquids, and substances of a highly dangerous and inflammable nature. That on the sixteenth day of September, 1929,…