Board of Commrs. v. Mentor Lagoons, Inc.

Plaintiff, the board of county commissioners of Lake County, brought this action in equity seeking an easement to complete the construction over defendant’s land of a sanitary sewer line. It is proposed that this line will connect with a sewage treatment plant constructed by the board as a part of a sanitary sewer district development.

To the petition defendant filed a cross-petition alleging two causes of action. The first is at law and consists of a claim for damages stemming from the alleged negligence of plaintiff board in installing the sewer line over other portions of defendant’s land.…