Taylor v. City of St. Louis
Supreme Court of Missouri
APPEAL from St. Louis Court of Common Pleas. STATEMENT OP THE CASE. This was a petition by appellants',, charging that on the 13th day of August, 1846, and' oís other days in the said month, and in the months of September, October, November and December, the defendant injured the plaintiff as follows: that plaintiff was seized of a lot of land and buildings thereon, known as the block No. 175, fronting on an alley in the city, between 9th and 10th streets.
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APPEAL from St. Louis Court of Common Pleas. STATEMENT OP THE CASE. This was a petition by appellants',, charging that on the 13th day of August, 1846, and' oís other days in the said month, and in the months of September, October, November and December, the defendant injured the plaintiff as follows: that plaintiff was seized of a lot of land and buildings thereon, known as the block No. 175, fronting on an alley in the city, between 9th and 10th streets. That defendant wrongfully and illegally graded and paved said alley, which caused plaintiffs land on said alley to cave in, and the…
1Opinion of the CourtNapton, J.
This case falls within the principle settled by this court in Gurno vs. City St. Louis, (12 Mo. R. 414.) The facts as we may assume them from the instructions are not distinguishable from the case of Callender vs. Marsh (1 Pick., 418.) The whole subject is very fully discussed in Hooker vs. New Haven & N. Co., 14 Conn. R., 146, and in the court of kings bench in the Governor and company of the British Cast Plate Manufactures vs. Meredith and others, 4 Yerger R., 794.
In the present action, the street or alley in question was laid out by the plaintiffs themselves or their ancesstor, and the…
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