Marion, May 7—Suit for damages, approximately a quarter million dollars, against the Western North Carolina and the Southern Power companies, in which some 39 complainants have merged their claims, was called before Judge McElroy in the McDowell county court here this week.
The suit, known as the “mosquito case,” was brought as the result of alleged epidemic of malaria among the residents in the Lake James district last summer. The latter claim the disease was spread by mosquitoes, spawned in the power companies’ lake after the water became stagnated. In hearing testimony, Judge McElrooy by agreement dismissed the jury and will decide the issue on its merits.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, May 8, 1926
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