Cauthen v. City of Canton

This record embraces two suits. The first is a suit for damages to a. dwelling house and property situated on a certain ditch in the city of Canton, which is alleged to have been established by the city as a part of its drains, and that by the negligence of the city in keeping it in improper repair the water overflowed the lot of the plaintiff and washed away part of her lot because the proper precaution against erosion was not provided by the city, causing the land to cave into the said ditch, and because the city, by paving its streets, had caused additional water to be cast into the ditch…