High v. Hawaiian Government

Opinion op the Court, by

Dole, J.

The plaintiff claimed of the defendant $352.40 for damages to his planing mill on the easterly side of Alakea street, in Honolulu, in that the defendant failed to provide sufficient drainage for the surface water of the said street, and unlawfully and wrongfully cut trenches across the sidewalks of said street, whereby large quantities of surface water were caused and suffered to flow from said street to and upon the plaintiff’s premises, causing great injury to the belting, pulleys and machinery of said mill, and putting him to great expense in pumping the…