Frances v. Town of Sharon
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Mahaslca District Court. — Hon. K. E. Wilcockson, Judge. Suit to recover damages for maintaining a nuisance. Judgment for plaintiffs, from which the defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtSherwin, J.
The plaintiffs are the owners of land lying within the corporate limits of the town of Sharon (now called New Sharon). Their land is in the southern part of the town, and running through one end of it from the northeast to the southwest is a natural water course. *731Extending north from the plaintiffs’ land a distance of three or four blocks there was originally a natural depression in the land, into which the surface water flowed and passed on to the south and into the water course running through the plaintiffs’ land. The land along the swale was wet, and some twelve or fifteen years ago the…
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