Oakwood Homeowners Ass'n v. Ford Motor Co.

On July 31, 1972, the Oakwood Homeowners Association along with 20 named, individual plaintiffs instituted this air pollution suit as a class action against four corporate defendants. The class consists of the association’s members as well as other persons similarly situated, all of whom reside within a rectangularly shaped, eight-block area, slightly less than a square mile in size. The area is described as "both sides of Oakwood Avenue, bounded by Schaefer Highway, Dix Road, South Fort Street and the Rouge River”.

The defendants, Ford Motor Company, Marathon Oil Company, Edward Levy Company…