Oil and Hazardous Material Release Prevention and Response Act, unfair and deceptive trade practices statute, breach of contract, negligence and nuisance claims by purchasers of underground gasoline storage tanks. Defendant counterclaimed for breach of contract for failure to pay for gasoline station products sold to plaintiffs. After the plaintiffs discovered underground contamination at their ... More...   $579055 (04-23-1998 - MA)

Nuisance claims by owners of property located next to defendant's property. Plaintiff's claimed they were damaged because Defendant's property was being used as a crack house.... More...   $38500 (02-13-1998 - GA)

The defendant developer/general contractor, completed construction of Abbeywood Estates Townhomes in Pico Rivera in 1989. Within the first year following completion of the Abbeywood Estates, many of the townhomes began experiencing serious plumbing leaks and water damage. After making some minor plumbing repairs, the developer/general contractor refused to make any further repairs. The t... More...   $1450000 (10-15-1997 - CA)

Strict liability, negligence, breach of warranty and nuisance claims arising out of the construction and sale of a 20-unit complex known as the Alhambra Birchwood Townhomes in 1991. Within the first year of occupancy, many of the homeowners began to notice water seeping through the retaining wall which formed part of their garage. The homeowners' association worked with Creative Homes to... More...   $625000 (10-02-1997 - CA)

The plaintiffs, two married couples who each own real property located near a sewage treatment plant in the defendant town and operated by the defendant water pollution control authority, brought a private nuisance action against the defendants for harm caused to the plaintiffs' properties by the unreasonable odors emanating from the operation of the plant. The sewage t... More...   $675000 (09-01-1997 - CT)

Challenge to ordinance imposing $600 yearly fee on stores that sell alcohol. The money would be used to fund police and other programs to combat the nuisance crimes surrounding such establishments.... More...   $0 (03-25-1997 - CA)

Fire loss. Plaintiffs brought suit against a neighboring rancher, his leasing agent, and all owners of any interest in the land upon which the rancher allegedly ran cattle, claiming negligence and nuisance in the rancher's use of fire to control pasture brush. Plaintiffs sought actual damages, treble damages, and punitive damages which at one point totaled approximately one million dollars. P... More...   $0 (02-14-1997 - OK)

Nuisance. Building owner's complaint to evict nightclub.... More...   $0 (02-04-1997 - CA)

We consider the appropriateness of a jury award of lost profits over a two year time period in favor of appellee/counter-appellant, Florafax International, Inc. against appellant/counter-appellee, GTE Market Resources, Inc., for breaching a contract requiring GTE to provide telecommunication and/or telemarketing services for Florafax. The profits were those Florafax claimed it stood to make from a... More...   $0 (01-28-1997 - OK)

¶1 This is the second time this matter has been before us. In the first appeal we affirmed the decision of the trial court to grant a temporary injunction prohibiting construction and operation of a landfill at a location in Okmulgee County. Sharp v. 251st Street Landfill, Inc., 810 P.2d 1270 (Okla. 1991), overruled on other grounds DuLaney v. Oklahoma State Department of Health, 868 P.2d 676 (Ok... More...   $0 (10-01-1996 - OK)

¶1 Plaintiffs appeal from the trial court's grant of summary judgment to Defendant, OXY USA, Inc. (OXY), in this action for alleged pollution of groundwater by OXY's operation of oil and gas wells on or near Plaintiffs' property. Plaintiffs also seek review of the trial court's ruling dismissing the general partners of N.C. Corff Partnership, Ltd. (Partnership) as parties to the case. We reverse a... More...   $0 (07-20-1996 - OK)

Negligence and nuisance claims by residents who lived down wind from the Tulsa Sun Oil Company Refinery claiming harm caused by gases escaping from the refinery. ... More...   $1 (01-18-1996 - OK)

Salt pollution from salt manufacturing plant polluted underground aquifer. This continuing abateable nuisance and trespass prevented farmers from being able to raise irrigated crops. Damages were the difference between the value of irrigated crops and dryland crops. ... More...   $1100000 (07-31-1995 - KS)

¶1 The Conservation Attorney for the Oklahoma Corporation Commission (Commission) filed this Application in the Corporation Commission on March 23, 1990.1 The Amended Application named Appellants Citation Oil & Gas Corporation (Citation), Mobil Oil Corporation (Mobil), and Raymond Punneo, Mayor of the City of Cyril as Respondents. Appellant Union Texas Petroleum Corporation (Union), also describe... More...   $0 (04-25-1995 - OK)

Respondeat superior personal injury claims by Rockey Mountain Enterprises, its owners and their daughter relating to criminal conduct by one of Defendant's employees. That employee made nuisance hang up phone calls, damaged plaintiffs' automobiles and otherwise attempted to disrupt their lives and business to the benefit of Carpet Barn for whom he worked. Plaintiffs alleged that Rocky Mountain E... More...   $35051 (02-06-1995 - MT)

Public utility negligence - power pole location. On November 23, 1989, Kristen Black was severely injured after coming into contact with an uninsulated electrical distribution line installed by Mississippi Power & Light ("MP & L"). Kristen had just exited an automobile, which had crashed into a power pole supporting the high voltage lines. Plaintiff alleged that as a direct and proximate result... More...   $750000 (01-27-1990 - MS)

Public utility negligence - power pole location. On November 23, 1989, Kristen Black was severely injured after coming into contact with an uninsulated electrical distribution line installed by Mississippi Power & Light ("MP & L"). Kristen had just exited an automobile, which had crashed into a power pole supporting the high voltage lines. Plaintiff alleged that as a direct and proximate result... More...   $750000 (01-27-1990 - MS)

The Unit Owners Association of BuildAmerica-1, a condominium, filed its bill to enforce liens recorded against condominium units owned by Harry F. Gillman and Saundra K. Gillman based upon fines it had levied for alleged violations by them of its rules and regulations. It also sought to enjoin the Gillmans from bringing their garbage trucks onto the common elements of the condominium. The Gillman... More...   $0 (06-18-1982 - VA)

¶1 Gerald Dean Swanson was convicted in the Municipal Court of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Case No. 276848, for possessing a lighted tobacco cigarette on an elevator in the Tulsa County Courthouse where a "no smoking" sign was prominently displayed. His action was found to be a violation of Revised Tulsa Ordinances, Title 27, Section 658, "Smoking in Certain Public Areas Prohibited — Punishment." The appe... More...   $0 (09-03-1981 - )

¶1 This cause is before us on a petition for writ of certiorari pursuant to 12 O.S. 1971, Ch. 15, App. 2, Rules 1.50-1.67. Petitioner, Administrator of the estate of Dafford O. Kennedy, deceased, seeks review of a certified interlocutory order overruling her demurrer to the petition of Neona S. Kidd, respondent. We grant certiorari, reverse the trial court's order and remand with instructions to ... More...   $0 (10-26-1976 - OK)

¶1 This is an appeal from a judgment of the county court of Osage county rendered against Edna Drew Pryor, administratrix of the estate of Antwine Pryor, deceased, and against the estate of said deceased, and in favor of Antwine Pryor, a minor, and putative bastard child of Antwine Pryor, deceased.

¶2 The record discloses that bastardy proceedings were instituted in the county court of ... More...   $0 (10-25-1938 - OK)

The primary issue in this consolidated appeal is the validity and interpretation of a roadway easement granted to meet a borough's subdivision plat-waiver requirements. The borough later approved a nearby subdivision project contingent on upgrading the easement roadway. The owners of the servient estate first insisted that the developer maintain his roadway upgrade within the original 50-foot eas... More...   $0 (11-30--0001 - AK)