Rice v. City of Evansville
Indiana Supreme Court
From the Vanderburgh Superior Court.
1Opinion of the CourtElliott, J.
The appellant seeks a recovery against the city of Evansville for injuries to his property caused by overflows, which.he charges resulted from the wrongful and the negligent acts of municipal authorities. The general verdict was for the appellee, and with it the jury returned answers to interrogatories submitted to them.
It is found by the jury, in answer to special interrogatories, that there was no negligence in devising the plan of the sewers or in constructing them, and as it is to these sewers that the appellant attributes his injury, he can not recover solely upon the ground that the…
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