Aliverti v. City of Walla

The city of Walla Walla appeals from judgments upon verdicts against it in five actions, which, being similar, were consolidated for trial and appeal:

The suits were brought to recover for alleged depreciation in value of several tracts of land, by reason of the city’s maintenance and operation of a sewage disposal plant in the vicinity of the lands.

' The plant is located on a ten-acre tract of land, acquired by the city for the purpose, about three-fourths of a mile outside the city limits to the west. Respondents’ lands, owned by them before the con struction of the plant, lie to the south…