Reid v. City of Atlanta
Supreme Court of Georgia
Trespass. Nuisance. Actions. Damages. Municipal ¡Corporations. Sewers and Drains. Before Judge Dorsey. City Court of Atlanta. June Term, 1884. ■ On May 16, 1882, Mary A. Reid brought case against the city of Atlanta. The declaration alleged that the city had negligently kept, worked and graded Hunter street so' as to turn water upon the lot where she resided, causing it to wash, and producing stagnant and filthy puddles, endangering health, etc.
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Trespass. Nuisance. Actions. Damages. Municipal ¡Corporations. Sewers and Drains. Before Judge Dorsey. City Court of Atlanta. June Term, 1884. ■ On May 16, 1882, Mary A. Reid brought case against the city of Atlanta. The declaration alleged that the city had negligently kept, worked and graded Hunter street so' as to turn water upon the lot where she resided, causing it to wash, and producing stagnant and filthy puddles, endangering health, etc. By amendment, it was alleged that, in 1870, the city ■changed the sewer on Hunter street from its original and natural position to a new situation so…
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Chief Justice.
" The plaintiff in error sued the defendant in error for 'damaging her property by so digging and keeping up a sewer as that it became and remains a nuisance, flowing, after every rain, human excrement on her lot and near her house, so as to make her residence disagreeable, hurtful to inmates, and unhealthy. The facts alleged in the declaration amount to the above synopsis, when boiled down to their essence. The sewer was dug or changed in 1870, so as now to produce, after rain-falls, these, besides other *525damages to her property, set forth therein. By amendment,…
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