City of Covington v. Faulhaber

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Carroll

— ^Reversing.

*624The city of Covington has a municipal water works plant, and the three reservoirs used in connection with this plant are situated in Campbell county on the east side of the Alexandria pike. On the west side of this pike and opposite the land on which these reservoirs are located, the appellees own a small farm which was ac'quired by them in 1910. The reservoirs of the city were erected about 1890, and it has been the custom of the city each year since their erection to drain the water out of one of these reservoirs, and when it was so drained…