Mayor of Waycross v. Houk

The plaintiff below, Mrs. Virginia W. Houk,. filed an equitable petition against the Sanitary and Waterworks Commissioners of the City of Waycross and the Mayor and Council of that city, the main purpose of which was to enjoin the defendants from continuing the location of the mouth of the main sewer of the city at a designated point near her premises, or from extending it, as was contemplated, so that the sewage would be discharged directly upon her land. In this connection she alleged that the main sewer emptied into a small stream, within about six: hundred feet of her premises, which was…