Ortwine v. Mayor of Baltimore
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas. This action was brought on the 21 st of April 1857, by the appellant against the appellees, to recover damages for injury done to the plaintiff’s property.
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Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas. This action was brought on the 21 st of April 1857, by the appellant against the appellees, to recover damages for injury done to the plaintiff’s property. The first count of the declaration alleges, that the defendants have damaged and injured the plaintiff to the value of $495, by causing a large body of water to flow over his land, situated on Walsh street, by the wrongful and illegal acts of the said city, and its agents, in grading Pennsylvania Avenue, a public highway in said city, and in not providing proper and sufficient sewers to carry off the…
1Opinion of the CourtTuck, J.
The appellant sued the appellees to recover damages for injury done to his property, “by the wrongful and illegal acts of said city and its agents in so grading Pennsylvania Avenue, a public highway, in said city, and in not providing proper and sufficient sewers to carry off the natural flow of water down said avenue,” and, as alleged in the second countin the declaration, he complains “that he was the owner of the lot in question before and at the time that that part of the Pennsylvania Avenue was graded and paved by order of the city authorities; that at the time of such grading the water…
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