Stillman v. Pendleton
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Trespass on the Case. The declaration alleged that defendant town negligently graded a public highway and constructed gutters therein so as to collect and conduct in confined channels large streams of surface water which did not flow upon the land prior to the grading of said highway, and would not have flowed thereon at any time had the grade not been changed and discharged the said water in and upon the land.
1Per curiam
The objection raised by the demurrer, that the action can not be maintained because the plaintiff became the owner of the premises subsequent to the time when the grade of the highway was changed and the gutters were constructed, is unsound. The facts alleged, if true, constitute a continuing nuisance, and an action quoties toties may be maintained. Wells v. New Haven & Northampton Co., 151 Mass. 46; Mississippi & Tennessee R. R. Co. v. Archibald, 67 Miss. 38; O’Brien v. City of St. Paul, 18 Minn. 176. In other respects the case stated is not dissimilar to the case stated in Johnson v. White,…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- O'Brien v. City of Saint PaulSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1872
- Wells v. New Haven & Northampton Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1890
- Mississippi & Tennessee R. R. v. ArchibaldMississippi Supreme Court · 1889