Richards v. City of Ann Arbor

This is an action on the case, in which the plaintiff recovered for damages done to his property, real and personal, on the occasion of a rain storm which occurred in the afternoon of the 7th day of July, 1902. The claim of the plaintiff was that the defendant city, in the construction and completion of its system of storm sewers, had taken surface water to Allen’s creek which would not otherwise reach the creek, and that by such system of storm sewers had greatly accelerated the flow of surface'water within the drainage area into the creek, and that the defendant, having acquired the flowage…