Covington v. City of Rockingham

The defendant assigns as error the refusal of the court below to sustain its motion for judgment as of nonsuit made at the close of all the evidence.

It is clear from the evidence that in May 1948 plaintiff husband constructed an eight-inch sewer line, 58 feet in length, from a manhole in Rockingham’s sewer outfall under U. S. Highway No. 1, to his premises, and at the end of this line constructed a manhole on the premises of plaintiffs. From this manhole the plaintiffs ran laterals through their property aggregating 379 feet. According to plaintiffs’ evidence, these sewer lines were installed…