Legal Opinion
City of Dallas v. Shortall
Texas Supreme Court
Decided March 23, 1938No. 7058PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Judge German
delivered the opinion of the Commission of Appeals, Section A.
The City of Dallas, on March 18, 1930, entered into a contract with The Central Contracting Company to construct a certain storm sewer known as Kidd Springs Branch District No. 24. The main feature of this enterprise was the construction of a tunnel several hundred feet in length through a hill, so as to divert waters from Kidd Springs Branch into Coombs Creek retention basin. The depth underground of this tunnel varied with the curvature and height of the hill, and at the highest point of the hill was eighty-five…
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