City of Somerset v. Gardiner

^Opinion op the Court by

Commissioner' Drury

Affirming.

The city of Somerset seeks by this appeal to reverse a judgment for $1,400 recovered against it by Mrs. Margaret Gardiner, for the change of the grade of the sidewalk in front of ber property. Her petition is rather short. She merely alleges that she owns a lot on the west side of Main street on which she has a house that is being used as a hotel, and that the city has, without her consent, changed and raised the grade of the street and sidewalk by which the market value of her property was diminished, injured as she says, $2,500. As a part…