City of Laporte v. Ahlborn
Indiana Supreme Court
From Porter Superior Court; H. H. Loring, Judge. Action by William Ahlborn against the city of Laporte. From a judgment for plaintiff, the defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtEwbank, C. J.
The substance of the complaint was that the William Ahlborn Construction Company, entered into a contract with the appellant city to fill, grade and pave a street at the expense of the abutting lands, and of an interurban street railway which was to occupy the center of the street and pay for the work done between its tracks and one foot on either side; that the abutting real estate and the street railway respectively were liable for payment of parts of the cost of such improvement if the appellant city had performed its duty as to imposing such liability. That the appellant city *487undertook to…
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