Sullivan v. City of Pittsburg

Citations

• 5 Pa. Super. 357
• 1897 Pa. Super. LEXIS 253

Syllabus

<p>Municipal law — Discretion of authorities in location of sewers.</p> <p>Municipal authorities have some discretion in extending, laying out and grading streets and in taking care of drainage. They may not, however, construct ditches or sewers so as to cast water directly upon private property, but they may adopt such appropriate means to carry surface water along the side of a street as they see fit, and if the sewer or ditch constructed for that purpose proves inadequate from lack of judgment as to capacity, and water backs up therefrom or overflows upon private property, there can be no recovery against the city by the person injured by reason of such backing up or overflow.</p>