Johnson v. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Co.

This action is brought by the plaintiff to recover damages of the defendant company for diverting surface water running across its lands to and over the premises of the plaintiff. The railway track of the defendant runs east and west along the center of Fourth street of the city of Ashland, and the street is 'bbtwpen blocks 28 and 29 on the north and blocks 47 and 48 on the south; and the defendant also owns the north half of said last-mentioned blocks, on which it has three side tracks, leaving the main track west of said blocks and running southeast. The premises of the plaintiff are lot 11…