American Potash & Chemical Corp. v. Nevins

This case involves an appeal from a judgment of $2,000 entered on a jury verdict for appellee, plaintiff in the lower court, by the Circuit Court of Monroe County, Mississippi, where appellee filed suit to recover damages to a growing crop of cotton by chemicals escaping from appellant’s plant during its operation.

Appellee charged in the original declaration that during the spring and summer months of 1959 he was growing cotton at Hamilton, Monroe County, Mississippi ; that appellant, defendant below, at that time owned, operated, and controlled a chemical plant located approximately one-half…