Alabama Power Co. v. Alford

This is a suit by O. H. Alford, appellee, against the Alabama Power Company, a corporation, appellant, for damages on account of negligently failing to keep unclogged a drainage pipe extending through its embankment in the city of Gadsden, on which embankment was located its street railway roadbed, and through which surface waters flowed. Plaintiff’s lot adjoined this roadbed, and was drained of surface water through this pipe, and as a result of the drainage pipe being clogged the surface water overflowed plaintiff’s lot and damaged it.

There was judgment in favor of plaintiff on a verdict of…