Skaggs v. City of Cape Girardeau

WEIER, Commissioner.

This is a suit for damages to real property caused by collecting surface water and casting it in concentrated and destructive quantities at one point onto plaintiffs’ land. From a verdict and judgment against it in the sum of $3,000.00, defendant City of Cape Girardeau has appealed.

In a hilly area of the City of Cape Girardeau, Adeline Avenue runs east downhill to end in a T-type intersection with a north-south street, named East Rodney Drive. The intersection is at or near the lowest point on this portion of East Rodney Drive, which rises to a higher elevation both north…