Krueger v. City of Faribault

Peterson, Justice.

Plaintiff, a farmer living on his farm on the banks of the Cannon River about three to three and one-half miles below the city of Faribault, sues the city to recover damages for inconvenience and discomfort caused by its having deposited raw and untreated sewage into the Straight River, which empties into the Cannon at a point just north of the city. The complaint is that sewage containing .waste matter and human excrement so polluted the water that in the spring during high water the sewage was deposited upon plaintiff’s-land and that during the summer the stream gave off…