Masonite Corporation v. Steede

The appellee recovered a judgment for the loss of profits she claims she would have made in a business operated by her which she claims was destroyed by the appellant.

The appellant owns, and for a number of years has been operating, a manufacturing plant on the banks of Tallahala Creek at Laurel, Mississippi, and discharges daily from this plant into the creek a large amount of water containing wood fibre. Tallahala Creek flows into Leaf River and Leaf River into Pascagoula River. The appellee owns lands on Pascagoula River and there operated in 1941, and several years prior thereto, a…