Flanagan Milling Co. v. City of St. Louis

Plaintiff corporation was “tenant and owner” of certain lots and a certain hominy mill and elevator situate thereon in St. Louis. Close by was a public sewer in Geyer avenue constructed in *3071854. Plaintiff’s basement was connected with this sewer by drain pipes. In that basement were sundry sorts of milling machinery, also grains and manufactured “white corn goods,” meal, etc. On July 24, 1899, as the result of a heavy rainfall, the back water from the Geyer avenue sewer flooded said basement, damaging its contents and the mill building. Grounding its action on negligence in enlarging the…