Cawthon v. Town of Defuniak Springs

The bill of complaint herein was brought to restrain the city from so paving the surface of a street opposite complainant’s store lot as to leave a space of perhaps four feet between the paved sidewalk and the curb of the street pavement, the contention being that it would be inconvenient and more expensive to transport goods from the curb of the paved street over the intervening four feet of unpaved street to the paved sidewalk at the complainant’s store doors. It appears that the paving programme contemplates leaving open spaces in the street curbs opposite doors or entrances to abuttting…