City of Port Arthur v. Bowling

KEITH, Justice.

City appeals from a judgment based upon jury findings that its maintenance of a sewer line constituted a nuisance amounting to a constitutional damaging of plaintiffs’ property and the jury fixed the amount of damages at $11,800. City has prosecuted the appeal upon four points of error but we do not find it necessary to discuss each since we are of the opinion that the second point, interposing the two-year statute of limitations, is valid and dispositive of the cause. We reverse the judgment of the trial court and now render judgment for City for the reasons now to be stated.1

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