Dixon v. City of Nashville

This case involves the right of a municipality in the construction and drainage of its streets to interfere with the natural drainage of surface water to the injury of lower lying lands.

The bill, filed by property owners on Albion Street in the City of Nashville, was dismissed because (1) the work was done in strict compliance with a plan of the city engineer, (2) the water flowing upon complainants’ lands after the improvements were made by the city was found to be "no more, or only very slightly more than before the construction of Eden Street” and (3) the acts complained of in the bill did…