Supreme Court of Missouri July 15, 1874 (Corpenny v. City of Sedalia)

Sherwood, Judge,

delivered the opinion of the court.

The plaintiff alleged in his petition, that he was the owner of a certain lot in the city of Sedalia, and had built on said lot a large two-story brick business house, with a large cellar thereunder, in accordance with the established grade, but that the city had so negligently constructed a drain or sewer, as to flood the premises“of