Soap Corp. of America v. Balis

HALL, Justice.

Appellee Wiley Balis and thirteen parties sued appellant Soap Corporation of America in a district court of Wichita County, Texas, for damages to their real property and their persons, caused by appellant’s grinding and processing soap in the vicinity of their homes, wherein such manufacturing process emitted odors that smelled like dead fish, dead cattle or similarly decayed material. They further alleged and testified, in substance, that in the operation of such plant it produced foul and obnoxious odors that spread into their homes, settled on their clothing and prevented the…