Hill v. City of Winterset

The appellee is the owner of certain real estate in the appellant city, which premises are occupied by the appellee as a homestead. It appears that, in 1923, the appellant placed a storm sewer along the public street adjacent to appellee’s property, and caused same to discharge into an open ditch or natural watercourse near appellee’s premises. It also appears that, after the construction of said storm sewer, various citizens of said city connected drains from cellars, septic tanks, and cesspools, with said storm sewer, and that the discharge from said sewer near appellee’s premises became…