Richards v. Salt Lake City
Utah Supreme Court
Appeal from District Court, Third District, Hon. G. W. Morse, Judge. Action by Daniel B. Richards and Hester T. Cannon Richards against Salt Lake City. Judgment for plaintiffs, and defendant appeáls. APPELLANT’S POINTS.
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Appeal from District Court, Third District, Hon. G. W. Morse, Judge. Action by Daniel B. Richards and Hester T. Cannon Richards against Salt Lake City. Judgment for plaintiffs, and defendant appeáls. APPELLANT’S POINTS. As tbe property of the plaintiffs was made a part of Salt Lake City by annexation, and that prior to such annexation there had been no grade of the sidewalk portion of Thirteenth East Street abutting said property established or fixed, and that the ground consisting of said sidewalk was at the natural surface, which was uneven and in some places higher and in others lower than…
1Opinion of the CourtStraup, C. J.
The plaintiffs brought this action to recover damages alleged to have been caused to their property situate in Salt Lake City on the east side of Thirteenth East street between Eleventh and Twelfth South streets by the defendant grading the street and sidewalk in front of their premises, dumping earth and material upon and taking a strip of their land, destroying their fence, and rendering rights of way inaccessible. The case, tried to a jury, resulted in a judgment in plaintiffs’ favor for $502, from which the defendant appeals.
The plaintiffs acquired the property in 1903. It then was…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Kimball v. Salt Lake CityUtah Supreme Court · 1907
- Hempstead v. Salt Lake CityUtah Supreme Court · 1907
- Webber v. Salt Lake CityUtah Supreme Court · 1911
- Felt v. Salt Lake CityUtah Supreme Court · 1907
- Coalter v. Salt Lake CityUtah Supreme Court · 1912
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