Thorpe v. City of Spokane
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Spokane county, Sullivan, J., entered April 11, 1912, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff by direction of the court, in an action in tort.
1Opinion of the CourtMount, J.
The plaintiffs brought this action against the city of Spokane to recover damages alleged to have been caused by the city’s so negligently grading its streets as to cause the plaintiffs’ premises to be flooded. The city denied that it had negligently caused the water to be cast upon the *489plaintiffs’ premises. Upon this issue, the cause was tried to the court and a jury. At the close of all the evidence, the court directed a judgment to be entered in favor of the defendant. The plaintiffs have .appealed.
It appears that, in the year 1910, the city of Spokane graded certain streets in Union Park…
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