Johnson v. Ratliff

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Logan

Reversing.

Appellant owns a bouse and lot in tbe city of Pike-ville. Appellee owns an adjoining lot fronting on tbe same street. After appellee acquired bis lot in tbe year 1922, be made improvements on it. He constructed a retaining wall along tbe edge of a driveway separating tbe two lots and extended tbe retaining wall to include almost bis entire lot. He filled in a depression on bis lot with tbe eartb excavated from tbe basement of bis bouse, and bauled cinders placing them on bis lot so that tbe surface might be rendered level. Appellant insists that in…