Sewer & Waterworks Improvement District No. 1 v. McClendon

This is an appeal from a judgment of $2,000 recovered by appellee from appellant in the circuit court of Lafayette County for damages resulting to his lands from the construction of a sewer or disposal plant in Lewisville in Lafayette County.

Appellee resided upon 116 acres of land, for which he paid $7,000, and upon which he expended $6,000 in constructing a dwelling and other improvements. This land was adjacent to an acre of ground which had been purchased by appellant and upon which it constructed a septic tank through which to discharge the effluent from the plant into Battle Branch,…