City of Henryetta v. Runyan

ARNOLD, V.C.J.

Action by W. H. Runyan against the city of Henryetta, a municipal corporation. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.

In 1928, the city of Henryetta, for the purpose of creating a water supply, constructed a dam across Wolf creek near the city with a spillway and filtering basins for the purpose of purifying the water collected by the dam before pumping the same through its distributing system -in the city. For the purpose of disposing of the silt and other solid substances removed from the water by its filtering process, the city installed large pipes below the filters…