City of Kansas City v. Slangstrom
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Wyandotte District Court. This action was brought by Emma C. Slangstrom against The City of Kansas City and the Orchard Piace Land Company to recover damages for injury to her property resulting from an overflow of the same, and which was caused by the wrong of the defendant.
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Error from Wyandotte District Court. This action was brought by Emma C. Slangstrom against The City of Kansas City and the Orchard Piace Land Company to recover damages for injury to her property resulting from an overflow of the same, and which was caused by the wrong of the defendant. It is averred that the property is located close to Splitlog creek, a natural water course, and that the city, iu improving two of its streets, had established a grade and made an embankment below the property and across the creek, which obstructed the flow of the water, and caused it to back up and overflow…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
JohkstON, J.:
In improving a street of Kansas City, where it intersects Splitlog creek, the municipal authorities built an embankment across the bed of the stream, and the only provision made for - the flow of water was the construction of a small and insufficient sewer or culvert through the embankment, and which was extended by the Orchard Place Land Company through its premises. The portion of the sewer built by the company upon its property broke down, thus choking up the only opening left in the embankment for the passage of the water. The…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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- Westbrook v. MizeSupreme Court of Kansas · 1886
- Bryant v. Bigelow Carpet Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1881
- City of Kansas City v. BradySupreme Court of Kansas · 1893
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