Segars v. City of Cornelia

E. E. Segars sued the City of Cornelia, alleging in his petition that the city had damaged him in the sum of $3000, in that the city, since on or about July 1, 1911, and at the present time, "is damaging plaintiff by causing” the contents of its main-line sewer to empty into Mud Creek above the plaintiff’s land, thus polluting the waters as the stream flows through plaintiff’s land; that great amounts of sewage are deposited along this stream in dry weather, and when the stream overflows the sewage is deposited on plaintiff’s land, polluting his springs and smaller streams that flow into the…