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Show DAMAGE BY FLOOD IN LINE OF DUTY. The state supreme court, in an opinion handed down late yesterday In the case of Anna Sehy against Salt Lake 'City, reversed the judgment judg-ment of the lower court, which had decided against the city, awarding a few hundred dollars' damages to the plaintiff, and remanded the caso for new trial The plaintiff, in her complaint in the lower court, had alleged damages to her property by reason of her land being flooded by waters from the Jordan river. Tho flooding, It developed de-veloped In the trial of the case, had teen catiscd by a dam being formed! in the river by reason of a wire netting net-ting which the olty had stretched across the stream in an ondeavor to catoh the body of a boy who had been drowned. In tho higher court tho city argued that it was the duty of tho city to ro-cover ro-cover tho body, and it had been within with-in its duties in stretching the netting, net-ting, but that It was not liablo for any damage which might have accrued ac-crued by reason of the netting caching cach-ing floating debrlB which formod the dam and caused the damago. oo- |