Hinds-Rankin Metropolitan Water & Sewer Ass'n v. Reid

GILLESPIE, Chief Justice:

Jody C. Reid and his wife, Mary F. Reid, and J. H. Blaylock, plaintiffs below and appellees here, sued Hinds-Rankin Metropolitan Water & Sewer Association, a corporation, defendant below and appellant here, for $80,000 damages. Plaintiffs alleged that about fifty-nine acres of ponds used for raising minnows were contaminated with sewage from defendant’s sewerage lagoons, resulting in damages in the loss of minnows and the diminished rental value of the ponds for several years. The jury returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiffs, Jody C. Reid and Mary F. Reid, for…