Sigel v. Buccaneer Hotel Co.

This action, although in character bilateral, tripartite, and alternatively directed — that is. brought by appellant, a directly abutting owner in each of his dual capacities as such, the one as a private person, the other as a representative of and for the benefit of the public, both against the city of Galveston and the Buccaneer Hotel Company, a private corporation, primarily for the removal of the street obstruction by way of injunction, and alternatively for consequential damages to his own property — has resulted in no recovery on either count for himself individually, or for the other…