Freburg v. City of Davenport

-After stating that the plaintiff is the owner of certain real estate situate witbin the city, the petition proceeds as follows:

“ That petitioner’s bouse is located on east end of said premises, and fronting on Mississippi avenue;'that a ravine runs *120through said premises from north to south, and west of, and lower than, the foundations of plaintiff’s house, which, at the time of plaintiff’s purchase of said premises and for a long time thereafter, afforded an outlet for the surface water falling on the streets and properties north of the plaintiff’s said premises; that the city, by its street…