Alexander v. Oklahoma City
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error■ from District Court, OMahoma County; B. F. Burwell, Judge. Action by John S. Alexander and others against the city of Oklahoma City. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiffs bring error.
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Error■ from District Court, OMahoma County; B. F. Burwell, Judge. Action by John S. Alexander and others against the city of Oklahoma City. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiffs bring error. On February 28, 1903, J. S. Alexander, ’W. M. Smith, C. J. Bowman, Julia Dunham, and Pearl Dunham, plaintiffs in error, plaintiffs below, sued the city of Oklahoma City, territory of Oklahoma, defendant in error, defendant below, in the district court of Oklahoma -county, and in their petition alleged themselves to be the legal and equitable owners of lots 9 and IQ in section 4, township 11 north, of…
1Opinion of the CourtTurner, J.
(after stating the facts as above). . The main question of fact tried in this case was whether the breakwater erected by defendant 1,500 feet above the dam, and 40 feet along the north bank of the stream, threw the current of the river against the south bank in such a way as to hurl it against the south end’ of the dam and caused the washing away of plaintiffs’ land across the dam at the south end and, during the high water of 1903, forced it back upon plaintiffs’ land, or whether, as contended by defendant, the dam had nothing to do with the injury complained of, but that a gorge some 350…
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