Boston Belting Co. v. City of Boston

This is an action of tort. The declaration contains eight counts. The first seven counts are for similar causes of action occurring in different years. Each alleges in substance that the plaintiff owned land and buildings on Stony Brook, and was entitled to the natural and usual flow of its waters; that the city of Boston, acting under the St. of 1874, c. 196, undertook to alter, deepen, and widen the brook; that it did the work on the brook above the plaintiffs premises so negligently that the water poured- down in large and unusual quantities ; and that it negligently failed to provide and…