Hardy v. Kansas City

SPERRY, Commissioner.

Plaintiff was the owner of a house and three lots, facing south on 81st Street Terrace, immediately east of Brookside Road, which bounded her property on the west. During the spring and summer of 1951 defendant, Kansas City, Missouri, caused a sanitary and storm sewer to be constructed along Brookside Road, from 84th Street to 81st Street, one-half block north of 81st Terrace. Plaintiff’s property was flooded a number of times, from May until December, 1951. She sued defendant, charging that the flooding was caused by defendant’s construction of said sewer. Verdict was…