Donovan v. Royal

GARRETT, Chief Justice.

This action was brought by the appellees against the appellant and the city of Palestine to enjoin them from maintaining a sewer by which the sewage of the city of Palestine was emptied into a branch or creek which flowed through the land of appellees and polluted the water. The case was tried by a jury, and upon their verdict judgment was rendered in favor of the appellees that the appellant be enjoined from maintaining the terminal of the sewer on the creek above appellees’ land, and granting him six months in which to comply with the decree.

In the year 1894 the city…