Platter v. City of Seymour

The principal questions which this case presents were determined in the case of Cummins v. City of Seymour, 79 Ind. 491 (41 Am. R. 618). The complaint before us is similar to the one passed upon in that case, but contains the additional statement that the servants of the appellee, engaged in the construction of a drain in a public highway adjoining appellant’s premises, cast soil upon his land, and injured his fence. No statement, however, of the amount of damages suffered is made, and the whole drift of the complaint shows that a recovery is not sought upon the ground of a trespass on the…