LINCOLN PROPERTIES, LTD. v. HIGGINS

No. CIV S-91-0760 DFL GGH.

823 F.Supp. 1528 (1992)

LINCOLN PROPERTIES, LTD., Plaintiff, v. Norman HIGGINS, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. California.

December 21, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael C. Donovan, J. Martin Robertson, Joleen M. Grussing, David A. Hubb, John Antracoli, Ware & Freidenrich, Palo Alto, CA, and James A. Askew, Richard Archbold, and Dana R. Rivers, Neumiller & Beardslee, Stockton, CA, for Lincoln Properties, Ltd.

Brian M. Englund, Grossfeld, Dougherty & Grossfeld, Sacramento, CA, for Norman and Donald Higgins.

John F. Cheadle, County Counsel, Steven B. Bassoff, Deputy County Counsel, County of San Joaquin, Stockton, CA, and Robert C. Goodman, and John R. Capron, Feldman, Waldman & Kline, and Anthony Griffin, St. Clair, McFetridge & Griffin, San Francisco, CA, for Monroe H. Hess, Jr., Jeanne G. Hess and James A. Murray, Jr., each individually and dba Finest Care Cleaners (formerly Lincoln Center Martinizing and One Hour Martinizing).

William A. Gould, Jr. and Paul A. Dorris, Wilke, Fleury, Hoffelt, Gould & Birney, Sacramento, CA, for Hoyt Corp.

Ronald G. Aronovsky, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, San Francisco, CA, for County of San Joaquin.

James E. Ganzer, Ganzer & Williams, Stockton, CA, for A.A. Mederos.

Richard S. Baron and Andrew L. Finn, Kitch, Saurbier, Drutchas, Wagner & Kenney, P.C., Detroit, MI, Robert B. Zaro, and Steven Mackey, Donahue & Callaham, Sacramento, CA, for Bennie Hein, individually and dba Norge Cleaners and Norge Cleaning Village; and Bonnie K. Crosby, individually and dba Norge Cleaners.

Jan Adam Greben, Scharff & Greben, Sacramento, CA, for Wilbert Moser, individually and dba Lincoln Village Cleaners.

Lynn S. Samuels, Zelle & Larson, San Francisco, CA, for Lumbermens Mut. Cas. Co. ex rel. Estate of Dwight Alquist, Deceased.

Stuart Lansing Smits, Lori J. Gualco, and David Frank, Trainor, Robertson, Smits & Wade, Sacramento, CA, for Jack Alquist, individually and dba Lincoln Village Cleaners, Village Cleaners, and Lincoln Village Cleaners, Inc.; and Estate of Dwight Alquist.

Roger W. Wenthe, McDermott, Will & Emery, Chicago, IL, and Mary Ellen Hogan and Tracy Loomis, McDermott, Will & Emery, Los Angeles, CA, for R.R. Street & Co., Inc.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

LEVI, District Judge.

Plaintiff Lincoln Properties, Ltd. ("Lincoln") is the owner of Lincoln Center, a 110-store shopping center on a thirty-acre parcel of land in San Joaquin County near Stockton, California. Over the years some of Lincoln's tenants have been dry cleaners who used perchloroethylene ("PCE") in the course of their business. In December 1984 the County discovered that PCE had entered one of its wells in...

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