Stansell & Rape Bros. v. City of McDonough

Stansell & Rape Brothers, a partnership, brought suit against the City of McDonough for damages on account of the diminution in market value of certain realty owned by them in said city, alleged, to have been caused by the lowering by the city of the grade of the street upon which their property fronted. They owned a certain lot upon which they operated a garage and filling-station business, and they set up that the lowering of the street level rendered their property inaccessible, and that it was necessary for them to remodel the garage building and floor and the filling station at an…