Voorhees v. Manti City
Utah Supreme Court
Appeal from the district court of the First judicial district, Territory of Utah. Hon. W. H. King, Judge. Action by Isaac Voorhees against Manti City for damages sustained by the flooding of plaintiff’s land. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Miner, J.:
This action was brought to recover damages occasioned by the alleged negligence of the defendant in maintaining a canal of insufficient capacity to carry off the water turned into it, and negligence in failing to clean out said canal and remove from its channel great quantities of rock, gravel, and rubbish allowed to accumulate there during its use, and before the damage complained of, *437which caused an overflow of its banks onto the land of the plaintiff, carrying and depositing there quantities of gravel, sand, and rubbish, to his injury. The case came on for trial before the court,…
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