Bush v. City of Rochester

DEVANEY, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered in the lower court upon the verdict of a jury in favor of the plaintiff, the owner of two acres of land bordering the city of Rochester, Minnesota. The verdict is for damage suffered to plaintiff’s land resulting from the alleged negligence of defendant city in building a- graded street south of plaintiff’s land without adequately providing for the drainage of surface waters. There was no motion for judgment notwithstanding or for a new trial.

Some 20 years ago the town board of Rochester established a town road on the south side…