Harrigan v. City of Wilmington

Comegys,.J.,

(charging the jury.) There have been two cases tried in this court which involve the question of the immunities and liabilities of this city in the exercises of functions under its charter with respect to its streets, which includes grading, making culverts, sewers, etti., and in one of them the diversion of a watercourse from its natural channel into an artificial one, to-wit, a sewer-In both those cases it was decided in effect that the corporation was not liable for any want of proper judgment in the plan of a sewer, or that of any other improvement. The function of deciding…