Inc. Town of Idabel v. Harrison
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from County Court, McCurtain County; E. B. Cochran, Judge. Action by Mrs. Pearl L. Harrison against the Incorporated Town of Idabel, Okla. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
BREWER, C.
This is a suit for flood damages against the town of Idabel. It is claimed as grounds for the action that the authorities of the town in improving the streets constructed the ditches, draining a number of streets so that they gathered surface water falling on a large area of land, and conducted it onto “Division street” and along it to “Court street,” upon which plaintiff’s residence lots abut; that after providing ditches to conduct the accumulated rainfall to Court street they quit work and provided no outlet for the water, which would necessarily accumulate, with the…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- White v. OliverSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1912
- Gulf, C. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. RichardsonSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1914
- City of Oklahoma City v. WelshSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1895
- United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. AlexanderSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1911
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- Robberson v. GibsonSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1917
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- Town of Sallisaw v. RitterSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1914
- City of Kaw City v. WoodenSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1928
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