City of Vicksburg v. Richardson
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of Warren county. Hon. John N. Bush, Judge. Mrs. Bichardson, the appellee, was plaintiff in the court below; the City of Vicksburg, the appellant, was defendant there. From a judgment in plaintiff’s favor the defendant appealed to the supreme court.
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From the circuit court of Warren county. Hon. John N. Bush, Judge. Mrs. Bichardson, the appellee, was plaintiff in the court below; the City of Vicksburg, the appellant, was defendant there. From a judgment in plaintiff’s favor the defendant appealed to the supreme court. The suit- was for damage to plaintiff’s property on which she resided, on the ground that it had depreciated in value by reason of the discharge, from the gutters constructed by the city for the purpose of carrying off surface or drainage water, of sewage matter from the residences of adjacent property owners, emptied into…
1Opinion of the CourtCali-ioon, J.
Before the construction of gutters the offal of residences, it seems, was either received by private sinks in the ground for that purpose, or thrown on the lots and dried by' the winds and desiccated by the sun, or pursued its descent by gravitation on the several -lots on the lines of least resistance, so as not to be a nuisance. The city, as it had the right to do, constructed gutters along the sidewalks to collect and carry off the surface *3water, and these ended at and emptied on a vacant lot adjoining the residence of appellee; both being at the bottom of a sharp declivity. This is not…
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