City of Georgetown v. Ammerman

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Nunn

Affirming.

Appellee lias owned for several years a Rouse and lot in Payne’s addition to Georgetown, Ky., which is worth, according to the testimony, from two to three thousand dollars. Prior to the year 1909 there was an epidemic of typhoid fever in that city, and it seems the hoard of health attributed it to the fact that the- filth from the city was washed into what is known as “The Big Spring” from which the city was supplied with water. This hoard directed the city to- dispose of the filth in some other way, and it purchased about six acres of land in…