Hume v. City of Des Moines
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Polk District Court. — Hon. Jesse A. Miller, 1 Judge. Action at law to recover damages due to the backing up of surface water in such a manner as to injure plaintiff’s premises.
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Appeal from Polk District Court. — Hon. Jesse A. Miller, 1 Judge. Action at law to recover damages due to the backing up of surface water in such a manner as to injure plaintiff’s premises. The injuries are alleged to have been due to the carelessness and negligence of the city in casting cinders and refuse of different kinds into a culvert and drain in such a manner as to impede the flow of surface water and dam it up so that it flowed back upon plaintiff’s premises and produced the injuries of which she complains. At the conclusion of plaintiff’s evidence, the trial court directed a verdict…
1Opinion of the CourtDeemer, C. J.
Plaintiff is the owner of what is known as lot seven of the official plat of lots one, two, three, and four in block forty-two of J. Lyons’ addition to Ft. Des Moines, now within the corporate limits of the city of Des Moines. This lot is thirty-three feet in width east and west and sixty-eight feet in depth north and south. It faces north on West Walnut street, and between it and West Fifteenth street are six lots of equal width and an alley. On the south is an elevated embankment and the right of way of the Des Moines Union Railway Company. Toward the west and the width of another lot of…
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