Supreme Court of Minnesota May 1, 1889 (Buchanan v. City of Duluth)

Dickinson, J.

In this action a recovery is sought for injury to a stock Of groceries, caused by the obstruction of a culvert or sewer in a street of the city of Duluth, so that the water flowing in a gutter in the street, and which was intended to be discharged by the culvert, set back and flowed into the cellar of the plaintiff’s store.