Leisl v. City of Newport

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Clay

Affirming.

William Leisl sued the city of Newport to recover damages for injury to real and personal property, and, from a judgment sustaining a demurrer to and dismissing his petition, he appeals.

Briefly stated, the facts pleaded are: The defendant, city of Newport, is a municipal corporation of the second class. Plaintiff owns a house and lot in the city. The property fronts upon the waterworks road, and extends back to a branch of Taylor’s creek running from a point one mile east of the property and flowing “westwardly and northwardly into the Ohio…