City of Ottumwa v. Nicholson

On the 13th day of October, 1910, the plaintiff, Virginia M. Nicholson, filed in the office of the clerk of the district court of Wapello county her petition as follows: That some years ago the defendant erected a stone culvert leading from the street in front of plaintiff’s house, to wit, Wapello street, onto and across plaintiff’s property; that said culvert is large and was constructed for the purpose of carrying the water which had theretofore flowed in an open ditch along said street and across plaintiff’s property under the sidew;alk in front of plaintiff’s house and over plaintiff’s…