Hockaday v. Wortham

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

—Appellant was sued by appellee for maintaining a nuisance, and prosecutes this appeal from a verdict and judgment against him for $500 damages, given as compensation for the discomfort to which appellee and his wife had been subjected by the nuisance. Because the court refused to abate or enjoin the nuisance, appellee also appeals.'

The basis of appellee’s claim, both for the damages recovered and for injunction, was thus given in his testimony: “I am a. man of family. Have a wife, Ida Wortham, and two children, girls, aged 10 and 5 years respectively. Own and have…