Town of Braggs v. Slape

This action was brought by Bert and Vita Slape against the town of Braggs, in Muskogee county, and Jim Harris, Harry Breedlove and Noah Junior Horn, trustees of said town, to recover damages resulting to plaintiffs from the discharge by the defendant town of sewage into a creek running across the farm of plaintiffs. The trial court submitted the cause to a jury, which returned a verdict for $1,000 in favor of plaintiffs, and defendants appeal.

The amended petition filed by plaintiffs sets out the location of their 80-acre farm, about one-half mile from the town of Braggs, Oklahoma, the dumping…