Koch v. City & County of Denver

During tlie month, of August, 1905, the Denver & Pueblo .Construction Co., under contract with the city and *407county of Denver, defendant in error herein, was engaged in grading and curbing a number of streets in said city, including South Tenth street. The work, during this month, consisted in plowing the streets to a depth of from six to twenty inches and smoothing the surface thereof with bladed machines, after the excess earth was removed, so as to establish proper grades and foundations for a finished surface of three inches of disintegrated granite. The plowing and grading left the earth…