Corpenny v. City of Sedalia

The plaintiff alleged in his petition, that he was the owner of a certain lot in the city of Sedalia, and had built on said lot a large two-story brick business house, with a large cellar thereunder, in accordance with the established grade, but that the city had so negligently constructed a drain or sewer, as to flood the premises“of plaintiff, and fill his cellar with the waters collected from all portions of the city, greatly injuring his building, and reducing the rents below the sum for which it had formerly rented, &c., &c. This petition is very inarti-ficially drawn, but enough, I…