City of Fayetteville v. Romine

Tom Glaze, Justice.

This case presents an issue of whether a city employee is immune from suit in a civil-rights action. The appellee, Ms. Jeanny Romine, fives at 11 Trenton Boulevard in Fayetteville. Around September of 1998, she began to notice the smell of raw sewage in her back yard. Romine notified the City of Fayetteville about the sewage odor, and subsequent testing by the City revealed that the source of the odor was raw sewage that was seeping downhill from her neighbors’ clogged sewer fines and overflowing from a clean-out meter box in Romine’s yard. Although, at the time, the City…