McClure v. City of Broken Bow

Root, C.

Action against defendant for injuries to plaintiff’s mill' and lots because of the alleged negligent filling of a natural watercourse and failure to provide in lieu thereof a sufficient outlet for flood waters. Plaintiff prevailed, and defendant appealed. ’

Defendant is a municipal corporation. By virtue of subdivision XY, sec. 69, art. 1, ch. 14, Oomp. St. 1907, it had authority “to establish, alter and change the channel *385of watercourses, and to wall them and to cover them over; to establish, make and regulate wells, cisterns, windmills, aqueducts, and reservoirs of water, and to…