Ginter v. Rector of St. Mark's Church
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Hennepin county to recover from defendant church corporation $600, damages resulting from the discharge of rain water from the roof of defendant’s building upon plaintiff’s premises. The case was tried before Pond, J., who found in favor of plaintiff for the sum demanded. From an order denying a motion for a new trial, defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtLewis, J.
The complaint alleges that plaintiff was damaged by defendant in wrongfully and unlawfully permitting the rain falling upon the roof *15of its church building and parish house to be collected by means of gutters and discharged through conductors in unusual and destructive-quantities against plaintiff’s building, through its basement windows, and upon the adjoining ground, so that it formed large pools, and percolated through the soil and area walls into the basement, causing injury to merchandise therein located. The answer alleges that the gutters and conductors upon defendant’s church building…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Sheehan v. FlynnSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1894
- Jungblum v. Minneapolis, New Ulm & Southwestern RailroadSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1897
- Oftelie v. Town of HammondSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1899
- Brown v. Winona & Southwestern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1893
- Burnett v. Great Northern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1899
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