Nuisance - Drainage - Homeowners Gaughfs and Rubins sued Macrive Construction, Inc., Rivers Construction Company, and related parties for nuisance created by an inadequate pipe in a drainage ditch located on the homeowners' property which caused flooding during heavy rains. The City of Macon reconstructed the drainage... More...   $0 (11-17-1999 - GA)

Roy English and Gayle English, d/b/a Dakota Industries (collectively, English), sued Tarrant County, Texas (the County) for damages to English's real property. English owned a tract of land adjacent to the County's property. He alleged that spilled diesel fuel migrated from the County's property onto his property and contaminated it, causing him damages. English sought to recover from ... More...   $0 (11-12-1999 - TX)

Personal Injury - Invitees - Liscensees - While a guest in the home of John Monson in 1996, Patricia Childers rode in an elevator installed by Jack Reeves no earlier than 1994. The elevator crashed, causing Childers serious injuries. As a result, she and her husband sued Monson and Reeves for personal injuries and lo... More...   $0 (11-02-1999 - GA)

Nuisance - Trespass - Property Damage - Flooding - In this suit alleging continuing nuisance and trespass, Duane West claims his property flooded repeatedly because defendants CSX Transportation and the Polk County Chapter of Georgia Rails Into Trails ("GRITS") failed to maintain drainage control on a railroad ... More...   $650000 (09-29-1999 - GA)

In 1982, the City of Sapulpa sold the property, but made no reservation for the roadway called South Ruble. Sometime in 1988 or 1989 the land was purchased by a developer. He submitted a ... More...   $125000 (09-13-1999 - OK)

Negligence, nuisance, trespass, costs and lost profits - This dispute arises out of Exxon Corporation's alleged failure to properly and completely remediate a piece of commercial property it previously leased for use as a gasoline station. Shortly after purchasing the land for use as a restaurant site, Taco Cabana unearthed soil it believed was contaminated. Taco Cabana removed the soil, and event... More...   $0 (09-08-1999 - TX)

Negligence - Nuisance - Trespass - This case involves a dispute regarding defendant Southern California Edison Company's (SCE) responsibility for damages sustained by the various plaintiffs as a result of a wildfire, commonly known as the Mill Creek fire, which broke out on October 27, 1993. The fire was alleged to have resulted from a failure in SCE's overhead power line equipment. ... More...   $889941 (08-30-1999 - CA)

City Ordinance - Plaintiffs, who are owners and members of clubs which provide the opportunity to engage in, or the opportunity to view, live sex acts, requests a preliminary injunction to prevent the city ordinance from becoming effective. Defendant enacted a city ordinance prohibiting these live sex acts and declares it disorderly house and public nuisance. Defendant filed a motion to dismiss.... More...   $0 (08-23-1999 - AZ)

Negligence - Environmental Clean-up - In this action, Juniata Valley Bank advanced claims of misrepresentation, negligence, trespass, nuisance and violation of the Storage Tank Spill Prevention Act ("STSPA") against Martin Oil Company ("Martin Oil") in an effort to recover costs it has and will incur due to the presence of an underground storage tank and the discharge of fuel oil on one of its pro... More...   $182253 (08-04-1999 - PA)

Class Action - Construction Defect - Negligence - Indemnity - In 1986, Peters and three other developers entered into an agreement to grade a large tract of land and to landscape the common area for a development commonly known as Crestmont. On its quadrant of the tract, Peters developed Black Mountain Vistas North, Unit II, which con... More...   $413428 (08-03-1999 - CA)

Negligence - Nuisance - Electrical Service - Plaintiffs operated a family dairy farm in Price County and received electric power from Price Electric Cooperative. Plaintiffs brought suit alleging that excessive stray voltage caused by defendant resulted in their herd's lower milk production. Following trial the jury concluded that defendant was not negligent. They also found, however, that defen... More...   $0 (07-30-1999 - WI)

Telecommunications - Nuisance - Covenants - Michael and Judith Smith, as well as all of the plaintiffs, are property owners on West Mountain in Washington County. Defendant, Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems, Inc. (Bell), is a local cellular telecommunications service provider. Since 1965 the Smiths have leased their land for towers f... More...   $0 (06-10-1999 - AR)

Polution. Property owners brought a nuisance and trespass action against the present owner of a former mining site, Combustion Engeering, Inc., alleging that acidic water had escaped from the site, damaging streams that run through their properties. At the time the mining originally began, Graves Mountain was essentially a big, solid rock. The mine operator would remove, crush, and process the roc... More...   $45047000 (04-01-1999 - GA)

Breach of Contract - Conversion - Nuisance - Trespass - Todd Jakobsen sued both Colonial Pipeline Company and Plantation Pipeline Company for, inter alia, breach of contract, conversion, nuisance and trespass stemming from the defendants' use of easements located on Jakobsen's property.... More...   $164300 (03-17-1999 - GA)

Interference with Enjoyment of Property, Tresspass, Nuisance - Plaintiff owned property adjacent to Defendants. Defendants added fill dirt to their property which increased the height of the property. Plaintiff claimed that the increased elevation forced rainwater to flow onto her property and caused flooding which she asserted reduced the value of her property to virtually nothing. Defendants ... More...   $0 (03-10-1999 - GA)

Negligence - Gary A. Goodman was the proposed developer of a new subdivision known as Emerald Woods Second Addition to Le Claire. In March 1992, Goodman asked the city of Le Claire to expand an existing tax incremental financing district (TIF) to include his development in the district. A TIF district is a financing mechanism a municipality may use to finance improvements in a subdivision.<... More...   $16432 (12-23-1998 - IA)

Negligence and nusiance claims. Negligent construction of a storm water detension facility constructed in conjunction with the development of defendant's property which plaintiffs claimed creased a nuisance in the way in which it concentrated and channelized water running off of defendant's property.... More...   $15000 (12-07-1998 - OK)

Declaratory Ruling, North Carolina Scrap Tire Disposal Act - In July 1987, two years prior to enactment of the North Carolina Scrap Tire Disposal Act. N.C. Gen. Stat. §§ 130A-309.51-63 (1997) Plaintiff, D.G. Matthews, Inc. (Matthews), purchased the "Taylor Farm." On the date of purchase approximately twenty-thousand scrap tires were located on the property. Mathews was aware of these tires, and a... More...   $0 (12-01-1998 - NC)

Nuisance, Tresspass, and Mental Anguish - Lakefront property owners claimed textile manufactures had devalued their properties and polluted the lake. Russel Corp. and Avondale Mills have been releasinge dyes into the lake via a treatment plant. Five families claimed loss of property values. ... More...   $53000000 (11-17-1998 - AL)

During the 1970's, Steven Staner, son of Luella and Richard Staner, farmed his parents' farm. In 1978, Steven purchased Thimet, a highly toxic insecticide containing phorate, used to kill corn root worm. From 1981 until the present, no one used the Thimet. In 1985, the United States Environmental Protection Agency listed phorate as a restricted-use pesticide. In May of 1991, David Diffenderfe... More...   $119200 (11-12-1998 - PA)

Nuisance and negligence claims by down stream property owners against upstream developer and its civil engineering firm for the design, construction and operation of a water detention facility located in the Arkansas river bottom near Bixby.... More...   $0 (11-09-1998 - OK)

Governmental tort claim - wrongful death. Stephen Eugene Pierce, age 14, drown when he was trapped by high pressure water in a pipe where he and other children were playing near Lawson Lake in Habersham County. The boy apparently entered the pipe through a manhole from which the cover had been removed. A city employee engaged pumps which pushed water through the pipe trapping the boy. Plaintif... More...   $750000 (09-09-1998 - GA)

The plantiffs decedent drowned while attempting to swim across the East Mountain Reservior in Waterbury on September 2, 1991. Approximately half-way across the reservior, he experienced difficulty swimming and called for help. Two people tried to rescue him, but were unsuccessful. The plantiff brought suit against the city for nuisance and premises liability negligence because the reservoir was... More...   $0 (08-11-1998 - CT)

The plantiffs decedent drowned while attemping to swim across the East Mountain Reservior in Waterbury on September 2, 1991. Approximately half-way across the reservior, he experienced difficulty swimming and called for help. Two people tried to rescue the decedant, but were unsuccessful. The plantiff brought action against the city for nuisance and premises liability negligence because the res... More...   $0 (08-11-1998 - CT)

Fraud, negligence, wantonness, trespass, conversion, nuisance, and breach of implied lease covenants - The Chatom Unit is a parcel of property drilled for oil and gas by Phillips; it is an amalgamation of several parcels of land combined into one "unit" under the authority of the State of Alabama Oil and Gas Board for the purpose of creating a "secondary recovery" operation on the property. Se... More...   $26852224 (05-22-1998 - AL)