The McFaddin-Ward House, one of the plaintiffs family’s original homesteads, is now a museum.

E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company went to trial in Beaumont, Texas, in a poison well case with the deck stacked against it, and the stakes high. But DuPont won that bet, saving the company multimillions and frustrating trial lawyers’ hopes to establish property rights deep below the surface of the earth.

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