City of Henderson v. Robinson

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Settle

Reversing.

*246The appellees, M. D. Robinson, W. H. Sassee, H. B. Drury and' J. T. .Spann, residents upon Canoe Creek, a stream which runs in part with the eastern boundary of the city of Henderson, each instituted in the court below an action against the appellant, City of' Henderson, H. Kraver and the Kentucky Peerless Distilling Company, to recover damages for the alleged pollution, by the several defendants' named, of the waters of Canoe Creek, caused, as charged, by the wrongful drainage therein of the city’s sewage and slops from the distillery, of Kraver…