City of Valparaiso v. Hagen
Indiana Supreme Court
Erom the Porter Circuit Court.
1Opinion of the CourtHadley, J.
Valparaiso is a city of 8,000 inhabitants. Salt creek is a. natural water course flowing from south to north through the western part of the city; thence west and north to its confluence with the Calumet river. Its fall is-fifteen feet per mile, and its minimum volume 227 cubic feet of water per minute. Within the city limits on the southwest is a low-lying marsh that naturally drains into Salt creek. The natural and only practicable drainage for all the territory within the city limits is Salt creek.
*338Prior to 1896 the city had constructed, according to law, a general and complete system of…
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