City of Knoxville v. Knoxville Power & Light Co.

The city sued to recover $9,389.95, an apportionment of the cost of paving Euclid avenue in improvement district No. 126, and $2,602.74, an apportionment of the cost of paving University avenue in improvement district No. 116, and for paving a street in improvement district No. 30. The complainant insisted that the street railway was chargeable with the cost of paving between the tracks and a foot on both sides, under the common law, as well as under the Knoxville Local Improvement Law, chapter 348, Private Acts of 1925. The chancellor held that the duty was not imposed by the common law, and…