Michie v. Great Lakes Steel Division, National Corp.
United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
495 F.2d 213 (6th Cir. 1974)
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Thirty-seven individuals living near LaSalle, Ontario (plaintiffs) sued three corporations (defendants) operating industrial plants near their homes, alleging the plants negligently emitted noxious fumes that created a nuisance. The plaintiffs could not determine or prove what specific share of the harm each individual defendant's emissions had caused, since the fumes from all three plants combined together in the air.
IssueFree
Whether multiple defendants whose tortious actions are independent but cannot be practically divided may be held jointly and severally liable to multiple plaintiffs for a combined, indivisible injury.