Omaha Loan & Trust Co. v. County of Douglas

Plaintiff in error instituted an action against the defendant in error for the recovery of damages to real estate alleged to have been sustained by reason of grading down a street, on which the real estate abutted, in the town of Florence, in defendant county. From a verdict and judgment in favor of the county the plaintiff prosecutes error to secure a reversal thereof.

The grading was done under the provisions and authority of sections la to Id, inclusive of chapter 78 of the Compiled Statutes, entitled “Roads.” The sections referred to are a part of the laws of 1889, being chapter 8 of the…