Jamison v. Myrtle Lodge No. 355

Plaintiffs owned lots 5 and 6 in block 14 in Seymour, abutting Fourth street. On these lots was a wooden building veneered with brick, two stories high, twenty-two feet in width, and eighty feet long fronting west on said street. It rested on a stone foundation, which on the south side was from two to three feet high and about three feet from the south line of the lots. Immediately south of this line is a lot or part of a lot owned by the defendants. About September 1, 1907, they began excavating a cellar or basement to be about eight feet deep and extending from the street back one hundred…