J. F. Humphreys & Co. v. City of Bloomington

J. F. Humphreys & Company, appellee, recovered a judgment against the city of Bloomington, appellant, in the court below for $17,000 damages in an action on the case, to reverse which judgment this appeal is prosecuted.

The declaration, in substance, charges that on January 1, 1924, plaintiff (appellee) was the owner of lots 1 and 2, being the whole of Harber Brothers Company’s subdivision of the north end of block 5 of Miller, Foster and Others’ addition to the town, now city of Bloomington, that said premises abutted on a certain street in said city known as South Main street, for an…