Legal Opinion
Lilly Industries, Inc. v. Health-Chem Corp.
District Court, S.D. Indiana
Decided July 30, 1997No. IP 96-1573-C H/FPublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ENTRY ON DEFENDANT’S MOTION FOR PARTIAL JUDGMENT ON THE PLEADINGS
HAMILTON, District Judge.
The large, lingering, and often hidden legal consequences of environmental pollution have fostered some imaginative attempts to expand the scope of some common law tort doctrines. The principal questions at this stage of this ease are whether a purchaser of real property may sue a prior owner for either nuisance or trespass based on the prior owner’s alleged earlier pollution of the same parcel. The court concludes that the Indiana courts would not apply either doctrine to such claims.
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