Kriener v. Turkey Valley Community School District

RAWLINGS, Justice.

By action in equity plaintiffs, as owners-occupants of a dairy farm, seek injunc-tive relief and damages by reason of a nuisance allegedly created by construction and maintenance of defendant school district’s sewage lagoon.

Trial to the court resulted in an adjudication adverse to plaintiffs and they appeal. We affirm in part, reverse in part.

An understanding of the problems instantly presented necessitates a prefatory portrayal of the asserted events upon which this cause of action is predicated.

In 1953 plaintiffs Luke and Leona Kri-ener purchased a 120 acre Winneshiek…