148 Ky. 848 | Ky. Ct. App. | 1912
Opinion of the Court by
Affirming.
Appellee is a citizen of Stanford, Kentucky, and the property upon which he resides fronts on Main street and extends back nearly to St. Asaph’s creek. It seems from the testimony that appellee’s property and that adjoining him on either side is, in somewhat of a depres
Without entering into an extended discussion of the facts, we deem it sufficient to say that the testimony shows that the city, in constructing streets and alleys for the town, has increased the flow of water .to the sewer pipe of appellee; that the surface water from at least twenty-four acres of land is carried to this pipe that at one time had a natural- drainage in some other direction; that at the time the pipe was constructed it was sufficient to and did drain about twenty acres of land, but that there is now more than twice that' amount of drainage to that point.
The city, has no right to compel appellee, at his own expense, to provide drainage for the water collected or conveyed, to his property by artifical means. It should be compelled, at its .own expense, to provide a way for the water to escape.
For this reason, the judgment of the lower court is affirmed.