Foedisch v. Chicago & North-Western Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Pottawattamie District Court. — Hon. Walter I. Smith, Judge. Appeal from an order of the district court sustaining plaintiff’s motion to set aside the verdict rendered in favor of the defendant, and granting a new trial.
1Opinion of the CourtKinne, C. J.
*7291 *728I. The action was to recover five hundred and fifty dollars as damages caused by water *729to a stock of tobacco, cigars, and other articles, stored in the cellar of plaintiff’s residence, in the city of Council Bluffs, Iowa. The charge is that the bridge of the defendant company across Indian Creek, in Council Bluffs, was so negligently constructed that it did not furnish sufficient waterway, thereby causing said overflow. The evidence tended to show that the creek flowed in an artificial channel, constructed many years ago by the city of Council Bluffs. In constructing the channel, the earth…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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- Stockwell v. C. C. & D. R.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1876
- Riech v. BolchSupreme Court of Iowa · 1886
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