Thompson v. Taracorp, Inc.

The plaintiffs, S.B. Thompson and 28 other persons ("the neighbors"), live on property that is adjacent to a "Superfund"1 site at the former location of a battery dismantling facility operated by Gene T. Jones Tire Battery, Inc. The neighbors sued Jones and numerous fictitious defendants, seeking damages for personal injury and property damage caused by lead poisoning of their bodies and contamination of their property with lead that they allege had escaped from the Jones site. Shortly thereafter, the neighbors amended their complaint to substitute 34 named defendants, including Taracorp,…