City of Abilene v. Bynum

GRISSOM, Chief Justice.

Raymond T. Bynum and wife sued the City of Abilene for damages to their farm alleged to have been caused by odors, insects and sewage from the city’s new sewer farm, which it built adjoining plaintiffs’ land. A jury found that the City’s sewage disposal operation caused objectionable matter, such as noxious fumes, odors, insects or sewer effluent to come upon plaintiffs’ land; that same caused a depreciation in its market value; that the damage was permanent; that prior thereto plaintiffs’ land had a market value of $86,000.00 and afterwards its market value was…