Mel Foster Co. Properties v. American Oil Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding proper measure of damages in nuisance case involving underground gasoline contamination was difference between market value of property immediately before contamination and market value after contamination
• noting measure of damages in nuisance case for diminution of value is “the market value of [the] property immediately before contamination and the market value of that property after the contamination”
• noting measure of damages in nuisance case for diminution of value is “the market value of [the] property immediately before contamination and the market value of that property after the contamination”
• noting measure of damages in nuisance case for diminution of value is “the market value of [the] property immediately before contamination and the market value of that property after the contamination”
• owner of property which was contaminated by leakage of gasoline brought nuisance action against owners of sources
• permanent in legal sense does not mean forever — indefinitely long is sufficient

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).