City of Vincennes v. Richards

The appellee sued the appellant, alleging, that he owned, and resided on, a certain half lot ih'.PIncennes; that the city, by erecting and maintaining diversJ culverts, embankments, ditches, water-ways, grades, kncL excavations upon certain streets of the city, caused ^hé) waste water, which before had been accustomed to flow elsewhere, to be diverted from its natural channels, and thrown upon the appellee’s lot.

The city answered in three paragraphs, the second of which alleges that the city is incorporated under the general laws of this state; that the common council ordered said streets to…