Kennison v. Inhabitants of Beverly

Tort for damages caused by surface water, accumulated in a catch-basin in Bartlett Street in Beverly, percolating into the cellar of the plaintiff. Trial in the Superior Court, before Bacon, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions in substance as follows. The plaintiff testified that water ran into her cellar from the drain in front of her house a great deal every year after it was moved, fifteen years before, until since this action was commenced; that a large amount of water draining from a street called Cabot Street was collected in drains by the road-side, and conducted into other drains by…