City of Louisville v. Hehemann

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Nunn

— Affirming.

In 1909 and 1910, Cabel street was used as a city dump. Appellees recovered a judgment for $500 against the City of Louisville for the injury this dump caused to their property and damage in their use of it. They owned and lived in a little two-room house on Pocahontas alley in the “Point.” The property reached back 150 feet to Cabel street. In 1909, when the city began to create the nuisance complained of, these two rooms sheltered the appellees and their eight children. The territory of the Point is low and fiat and subject to periodical…