CITY OF COLUMBIA v. LENTZ


282 S.W.2d 787 (1955)

CITY OF COLUMBIA v. Curtis LENTZ et ux.

Court of Appeals of Tennessee. Middle Section.

Certiorari Denied October 7, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Dawson Frierson, Jr., Columbia, for City of Columbia.

J. Shelby Coffey, Jr., M.A. Peebles, and Jerry Colley, Columbia, for Curtis Lentz et ux.


Certiorari Denied by Supreme Court October 7, 1955.

FELTS, Judge.

This action was brought by Lentz and wife against the City of Columbia for damages for an alleged nuisance. Plaintiffs live on a farm of 191 acres which is about half a mile from the city limits, and which is watered by Little Bigby Creek. The city has a sewer pipe line which crosses the farm and empties into this creek.

Plaintiffs charged in their declaration that defendant city overtaxed...

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