Ray v. City of Huntington
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Cabell County. Action by M. B. Ray against the City of Huntington. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
LyNch, Judge:
This review deals with a judgment against the City of Huntington for the alleged impairment of the value of a lot abutting 80 feet on Davis Street, occasioned, it is claimed, by lowering the street grade in front of it. Although the street apparently formed part of, and co-ordinated with, the general municipal street system or plan, the city did not lay it out. nor formally accept or adopt it; though the public did use it and the city exercised some control over it, as if it were a thorofare adopted for the general use of the public.
When and before plaintiff purchased the lot ih…
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