City of Stillwater v. Robertson

This action was instituted on July 14, 1941, by John H. Robertson et ux., hereinafter referred to as plaintiffs, against city of Still-water, a municipal corporation, hereinafter referred to as defendant, to recover damages to real estate which had been sustained as a result of the act of the defendant in 1933 in increasing the height of a dam which- had been erected in 1926 to impound a municipal water supply. The defendant pleaded the statute of limitations in bar of the action. Trial to a jury resulted in a verdict in favor of plaintiffs in which their recovery was assessed at the sum of…