City of Gainesville v. Waters

How courts have described this case

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• evidence of bad faith shown by city’s refusal to alleviate drainage problems despite knowledge of flooding to plaintiffs property
• bad faith attorney fee issue properly submitted to jury where, despite defendant’s knowledge of flooding problems, defendant failed to alleviate drainage problems that led to flooding on plaintiffs property
• “The measure of damages for discomfort, loss of peace of mind, unhappiness and annoyance of the plaintiff caused by the maintenance of a nuisance is for the enlightened conscience of the jury.”
• “Where a nuisance is not permanent in its character, but is one which can and should be abated by the person erecting or maintaining it, every continuance of the nuisance is a fresh nuisance for which a fresh action will lie”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).