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64 F.2d 537

Docket No. 6164.

Sinclair Refining Co. v. Keister

Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals

Decided April 6, 1933.

Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1933-04-06

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently April 1997

1 state decisions

2 counsel of record

Relies on Gunning v. Cooley · Grand Trunk Western Ry. Co. v. Heatlie · Cleveland Nehi Bottling Co. v. Schenk

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Opinion by (per_curiam) · Decided 1933-04-06

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¶1D. B. Cull, of Cleveland, Ohio (Cull, Fuller & Laughlin, of Cleveland, Ohio, on the brief), for appellant.

¶2E. S. Wertz, of Cleveland, Ohio, and L. R. Critehfield, Jr., of Wooster, Ohio (Critehfield, McSweeney & Critchfield, of Wooster, Ohio, and E. S. Wertz, of Cleveland, Ohio, on the brief), for appellee.

¶3Before MOORMAN, HICKENLOOPER, and SIMONS, Circuit Judges.

¶4PER CURIAM.

¶5The plaintiff recovered damages for the pollution of the water supply on her premises caused, as she claimed, by leakage of gasoline from storage tanks installed by the defendant on adjacent property. The defendant appeals, contending (1) that the court erred in refusing to admit in evidence certain exhibits which it offered, and (2) that there should have been a directed verdict in its behalf at the conclusion of all the evidence. The first contention is not supported by any valid assignment of error. The ground of the second is that, although there was evidence of a defective storage tank, the evidence as a whole so overwhelmingly preponderated in favor of the view that gasoline from the tank could not have percolated through the earth into the plaintiff’s well and spring that it was the duty of the court to direct a verdict. Martin v. Memphis Stone & Gravel Co. (C. C. A.) 46 F.(2d) 989; Gunning v. Cooley, 281 U. S. 90, 50 S. Ct. 231, 74 L. Ed. 720. We do not agree that the evidence so preponderates, but think there was substantial evidence to show that gasoline from the tank could and did percolate into the well and spring. In such a ease the question is for the jury, and this court - cannot consider whether its verdict is against the weight of the evidence. Grand Trunk Western Ry. Co. v. Heatlie, 48 F.(2d) 759, 761 (6 C. C. A.); Cleveland Nehi Bottling Co. v. Schenk, 56 F.(2d) 941, 942 (6 C. C. A.).

¶6The judgment is affirmed.

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