Bell Industries, Inc. v. Jones

Head, Presiding Justice.

C. M. Jones sought to enjoin Bell Industries, Inc., from flowing industrial waste and sewage onto his property. The defendant is an adjacent property owner operating a plant where rugs and carpets are manufactured. The petition stated that the defendant claims the right to pass industrial waste onto the petitioner’s land under an easement granted by him to the predecessor in title of the defendant. It is asserted that if the defendant’had any right to discharge laundry waste water on the petitioner’s property by the easement, it has forfeited its right by greatly…