Collins v. City of Keokuk

I. Plaintiff is the owner of a tract of land lying west and south of Grand avenue in the city of Keokuk, Iowa. Defendant is a municipal corporation, and in improving said avenue laid a fifteen inch tile drain partly across the street, to conduct the water from the east to the west side of the street. Plaintiff claims that thereby surface water in a greater amount is discharged upon his land, and in a different manner, *294than it was prior to the construction of said tile drain ;■ that he is damaged thereby. To prevent said damage,, he asks that an injunction issue restraining the defendant from…