City of West Point v. Meadows

Mrs. Annie Mae Meadows and husband, L. O. Meadows, sued the City of West Point, Mississippi, to recover damages on account of the way and manner in which the defendant had operated its garbage dump for the six-year period immediately preceding November 5, 1957. The declaration set out in detail how the operation of the same constituted a nuisance. Issue was joined; and the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiffs in the sum of $1,325. Prom the judgment entered thereon, the City appealed.

The plaintiffs owned fourteen acres of land on which their home was situated. Immediately to the south,…