Johnson v. White

This action is brought to recover damages which the plaintiff claims to have sustained by reason of the turning of surface water upon his land by the acts of the defendant city.

The declaration alleges that the defendant constructed a large culvert or drain at the junction of Nashua and Ann Mary str'eets, and thereby collected quantities of surface water and discharged the same artificially, in a channel over certain intervening land, onto a large tract of land belonging to the plaintiff. It also alleges that the water so discharged was far in excess of the amount that would have been…