City of Vicksburg v. Porterfield

This is an appeal by the city of Vicksburg from a judgment against it in favor of the appellee, who was plaintiff in the court below, for damages to appellee’s property fronting on Walnut street in the-city of Vicksburg. The appellee, Mrs. Porterfield, had owned the property so damaged since about 1899. The damage claimed was for permitting a drain sewer, constructed in the street under an embankment by which the water on the west side of the street was to be carried east through a highway embankment, to become entirely obstructed, and the rainfall to be impounded on the west side of the…