Schuss v. City of Chehalis
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior, court for Lewis county, Rice, J., entered November 12, 1913, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiffs, in an action for damages through the removal of lateral support.
1Opinion of the CourtGose, J.
This is an action to recover damages for the sliding of soil from the plaintiffs’ lots in consequence of the removal of lateral support in making an original grade. The defendant has appealed from an adverse verdict and judgment.
The' facts are these: The respondents’ lots are situated in the appellant city, upon a hillside. The formation of the lots is soapstone or shale rock, overlaid with gumbo and black soil. In grading the street, the city made a vertical cut of about sis and one-half feet at or near the line of the respondents’ lots but wholly within the limits of the street. The slope…
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