Bowie Sewerage Co. v. Chandler

FOLLEY, Justice.

This is a suit for damages by the plaintiff below, W. W. Chandler, a person of unsound mind, acting through his ' next friend, Webb Case, against the defendant below, the Bowie Sewerage Company, for injuries to plaintiff’s land and to the health of plaintiff’s wife, Mrs. Lizzie Chandler.

The plaintiff is the owner of 147 acres of land about three miles southwest of the town of Bowie which he has owned since 1907. Jones Creek traverses this land within a short distance of the home of plaintiff. Above plaintiff’s premises about a mile is a tract of land owned by the defendant.…