Turk v. City of Rome

Webb, Judge.

Adolph and Geneva Turk filed suit against the City of Rome, a municipal corporation, alleging that on April 28, 1972, the city’s workmen dug a ditch from abutting property onto their property; that in the process the workmen cut down a portion of plaintiffs hedge and destroyed a part of their wire fence running across the rear of the property, damaging them in a stated amount; that as a direct result of the negligent construction of the ditch, the plaintiffs sustained damage in a stated amount on May 3, 1972, when a thunderstorm caused surface water to gush down the ditch…