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ST. PAUL'S EVANG. v. CITY OF WEBSTER CITY

No. 07-1752.

766 N.W.2d 796 (2009)

ST. PAUL'S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH, Appellant, v. CITY OF WEBSTER CITY, Iowa, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

June 12, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Justin T. Deppe of Deppe Law Office, Jewel, for appellant.

Stephen G. Kersten of Kersten Brownlee Hendricks L.L.P., Fort Dodge, for appellee.

STREIT, Justice.

Some mistakes cannot stay buried. In 1978, during Webster City's water main installation project, a city contractor severed and then negligently reconnected St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church's gravity-flow sewer line. Twenty-seven years later, sewage backed up into the church. St. Paul's brought a suit against the City to recover damages. The jury found in favor of St. Paul's, determining the water...

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