Bowman v. City of Waverly

The plaintiff has owned and resided on lots 1 'and 2, in block 38, of Havnon & Le Valley’s addition to the city of Waverly, since 1887. The ends of the lots .abut on Market street, lot 1 lying along Linn street. Tn 1882 he planted eight elm trees along the east side of lot 1 between the board walk and the curb line, and these trees are now twenty-five or thirty feet high. and ten to fourteen inches in diameter. In 1887 a cement sidewalk replaced the board walk, and in 1894 the city by ordinance established the grade of the streets therein, and among other things ordained that the roadway in…