Source: Alan Wooten, BLADEN JOURNAL, 12/10/18


A jury of nine women and one man began deliberations Friday in the fourth hog nuisance lawsuit that has threatened farms and communities of eastern North Carolina. The case is being heard in a federal courtroom in Raleigh and involves Sholar Farms of Sampson County. Smithfield Foods subsidiary Murphy-Brown, as it has been in three previous cases, is the defendant; plaintiffs are eight neighbors.

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