Hogan v. City of Hot Springs

SADLER, Justice.

The City of Hot Springs, a municipal corporation, as appellant, seeks to reverse a judgment in severalty against it totaling $19,830, rendered in varying amounts in favor of five different appellees appearing without objection as co-plaintiffs in an action for damages found to have resulted to each from the city’s negligence in failing to protect their homes and premises from flood waters following a heavy downpour of rain. The parties will be referred to here as they were designated below.

It may be well to state at the outset that the defendant, City of Hot Springs (now the…