National Water-Works Co. v. City of Kansas

This is an action for damages. The plaintiff is the owner of the Kansas City Water-works, and the facts upon which the claim is founded are these: In 1883 plaintiff laid a water-pipe on East Eighth street. This was a street whose grade had been established, and the plaintiff was directed by the city to lay a water-pipe therein, and the’same was laid, in the place and maimer directed by the city. In the year 1884 the city dug a sewer on said *922Eighth street, in the same part of the street in which the plaintiff’s water-pipe had been laid, in consequence whereof the plaintiff was compelled to…