Highview North Apartments v. County of Ramsey

SIMONETT, Justice.

Defendant municipalities appeal from a judgment holding them liable on a nuisance theory for damages to plaintiff’s property attributed to defendants’ water drainage systems. Defendants contend that no causal connection between their actions and plaintiff’s damage was proven, that in any event nuisance does not lie, and that, at the very least, the damage award is improper and excessive. We affirm.

In early 1980 the plaintiff, Highview North Apartments, a partnership, sued defendants County of Ramsey, City of Maple-wood, and City of North St. Paul. Fourteen years before, in…