City of Cincinnati v. Boston

Jones, Oliver B., J.

The city of Cincinnati sought in the action below to recover from the defendant, Edward W. Boston, who was a plumber doing business as the Douglas Plumbing & Heating Co., the amount of a judgment and costs which it had been compelled to pay to one William Alex*351ander for injuries to his horse, harness and wagon by reason of an excavation made in Colerain avenue for the purpose of tapping a sewer. Alexander had sued the city and secured a judgment before a justice of the peace, from which the city appealed to the court of common pleas, where upon trial to a jury a judgment…