Shann v. City of Rapid City

Plaintiff brought this action against the city to recover damages due to water and sewage backing up in a sanitary sewer to which plaintiff’s property was connected. The facts disclose that plaintiff’s property was serviced by a six-inch sanitary sewer line constructed and maintained as a part of the municipal sewer system. This six-inch line originated approximately two blocks east of plaintiff’s property and ran in a westerly direction through the alley in the rear of the property and into a manhole within one-half a block from plaintiff’s home. There were about twenty connections on to…