eBook details
- Title: Nugent v. Pilgrims Pride Corp.
- Author : Texas Fourteenth District Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 02, 2000
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 71 KB
Description
This is an appeal from a summary judgment granted in favor of Pilgrims Pride Corporation and Patrick Pilgrim ("Defendants or Appellees"). Susan and Ray Nugents suit alleged trespass and temporary damage to their farm by Defendants negligent or grossly negligent dumping of noxious and toxic chemicals and chicken waste on the adjoining farm. Rainfall and accompanying erosion carried the waste and chemicals onto the Nugent farm. The Nugents also claim that Defendants use of the adjoining property, together with their operation of a feed mill approximately a mile away, constitutes a nuisance depriving them of the use and enjoyment of their property. The Nugents also claim that the Defendants operation of the feed mill and the adjoining farm has caused them personal injuries. The petition also included claims for ultra-hazardous activity, assault, destruction of natural resources, and remediation. We reverse the summary judgment on the claims for temporary damage to land, personal injury, trespass, and nuisance.