McDowell v. City of Natchez

The plaintiffs, appellants Claude C. McDowell and others, filed suit in the Circuit Court of Adams County against the City of Natchez for damages to their residential property on Madison Street, alleging that the City opened a new street in 1952 or 1953 and in doing this the water course was changed to an extent that it increased the volume and velocity of the flow of water across their property. The declaration was founded on negligence and the duty to refrain from diverting excess water across their property, and that the appellee had breached this duty. In other words, they charged *390that in…