Kansas Supreme Court closes valve in protracted dispute on illegal hog-effluent pipeline
TOPEKA — Northwest Kansas hog farmer Terry Nelson’s campaign to convince the judicial system he had a legal right to install a livestock sewage pipeline along a public road in the right-of-way on neighbors’ property without government or landowner permission has come to an end in state courts.The Kansas Supreme Court, in a unanimous opinion, affirmed previous decisions of the Kansas Court of Appeals and the Phillips County District Court that Nelson engaged in trespass in 2017 by building an unauthorized pipeline on property owned by neighbors Rodney Ross and Laura Field.