Lynch v. Clarke

The plaintiff seeks by this action to recover damages from the city of Providence, alleged to have been sustained by reason of its failure to properly maintain a drain or culvert through and under Willard avenue, one of the streets of said city.

The declaration sets out that the defendant city constructed said street across a natural water course, and that in order to receive and carry off the water thereof it constructed a drain or culvert under said street. And the plaintiff avers that it was the duty of the city to keep said culvert in repair and free from any obstruction, and in a…