City of Roanoke v. Johnson

THOMAS, Justice.

The bill sought injunctive relief to prevent discontinuance by the city of water service to complainants. Such was the decree of the circuit court, from which the city appealed.

The testimony taken by depositions tended to show that complainants owned lots (with houses thereon accorded water service by the city) adjoined to the water basin of that municipality; that water seeped through the foundation of that basin, injured adjacent lands, and rendered useless the wells then in use in each of said houses; that, pursuant to an agreement with the municipality, each complainant…