City of Cincinnati v. Vester

MOORMAN, Circuit Judge.

In March, 1928, the appellant, City of Cincinnati, by its council, passed an ordinance to appropriate a strip of land 25 feet in width adjacent to the south line of Pifth street for the purpose of " widening the street. By the same ordinance the city undertook to condemn additional areas adjacent to this strip, on the south side thereof, between Main and Pike streets) the intersecting streets being Lawson Alley, Sycamore, Broadway, McAllister, and Lawrence. The appellees brought separate suits in the district court to enjoin the city from condemning their properly lying…