City of Rome v. Brown

A. D. Brown, after furnishing the City of Rome with the required statutory notice of his claim, filed his action for damages against said municipality, alleging that he was the owner of a certain house and lot in said city, fronting 50 feet on East 12th Street; that during the fall of 1931, and the winter of 1932, the defendant, acting by and through its duly authorized agents and employees, the Minge Construction Company, raised the street and sidewalk in front of plaintiff’s property about 14 inches, “thus forming a dam, so that water falling on said property and running thereon in its…