Arkebauer v. Falcon Zinc Co.

The appellee, Falcon Zinc Company, owns and operates a zinc smelter located near the city of Van Burén, in Crawford 'County, Arkansas. Each of the appellants brought a separate suit against the appellee, each of them alleging that he owned a farm in the immediate vicinity of appellee’s smelter. The suits were filed in August, 1927. The smelter had been built for several years, and appellants had alleged that the appellee had operated this smelter for a period of something more than three years, smelting large quantities of ore in its furnaces each day; that their lands, before the location…