Cummings v. Pennsylvania Fire Insurance

In the afternoon of June 20, 1908, a storm of unusual violence raged at Waukon. Several inches of rain and hail fell within a half hour. The waters gathered in the depression along the course of a creek bed, through which a covered sewer had been constructed, several feet deep, and flowed rapidly past the southwest corner and west side of a brick building containing plaintiff’s millinery stock and fixtures. As the hail ceased falling, the west wall of the building collapsed, and most of the property mentioned' -was precipitated into the water and debris. Whether this was caused- by a stroke…