Jerry Shrader, Etc., Appellants/cross-Appellees v. A. W. Horton, Jr., Etc., Appellees/cross-Appellants

This appeal arises in a Federal court suit brought in 1978 by nearly 100 property owners or residents (plaintiffs) in the Abbs Valley Community of Tazewell County, Virginia, with private water supply systems approved by the State Water Authority, against the members of the Tazewell County Water and Sewage Authority and the Board of Supervisors of the County (defendants) to enjoin them from requiring plaintiffs to connect to a public water system at their own expense and also preventing them from using their existing water sources. 1

Plaintiffs declared on the Sherman and Clayton Antitrust…