Knostman & Peterson Furniture Co. v. City of Davenport

I. Plaintiff is a corporation engaged in the manufacture of furniture. Its factory is situated upon the south side of East Front street in the defendant city, and faces north thereon. Wall street and Mississippi avenue are streets which intersect with Front street on the north side thereof; the former just west, and the latter east, of the plaintiff’s factory. These two streets run north and south, and have a decided up-grade to the north, and the surface water from twenty or thirty acres of ground is cast upon these streets, and conveyed down to Front street. At times of heavy rains the…