SOUTHLAND CO. v. McDonald

This is an appeal by the Southland Company, a joint venture, from a judgment of the Circuit Court of the Second Judicial District of Jones County, which awarded to Benjamin F. McDonald and wife the sum of $1,180 on account of the pollution of Boguehoma Creek and consequent damages to their land.

For a number of years, the defendant has operated an oil refinery in Jones County. The effluent from the plant drained into a ditch which flowed into McGill’s branch, and which, in turn, emptied into Boguehoma Creek, about a half mile away. Between sixty and eighty acres of the plaintiffs ’ land,…