Griffin v. City of New Castle

Opinion by

Keller, J.,

Since 1898 plaintiff has owned a house and lot fronting on Eastbrook Road, a street in the City of New Castle. As originally laid out the road was thirty-three feet wide. In 1909 the City Councils passed an ordinance fixing its width at forty feet, of which twenty feet should be on each side of a described center line, and establishing a grade, which in front of plaintiff’s house was several feet higher than the original grade. Nothing was done towards the actual widening and grading of the road until June 6, 1921, when the City Council passed an ordinance providing for…