City of Elizabethtown v. Caswell

MOREMEN, Justice.

This appeal presents a record wherein appellee, Clint Caswell, recovered a judgment entered upon a verdict in the sum of $4000 against appellant, City of Elizabeth-town, which herein will be called City.

The facts are these: Representatives and officers of City negotiated with appellee for the purpose of obtaining a sewage line right-of-way across his land. Appellee was told that the pipe was to be placed below plow depth and the only interference with the cultivation of his land, after the pipe line was laid, would be from several manholes which would extend four or five feet…