Baldwin v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.

The plaintiff’s house and lot are on one side of a street in the city of Bed Wing, the track of defendant on the other side, the surface of the street sloping down from plaintiff’s to defendant’s side. November 1, 1882, the defendant, as plaintiff alleges, wrongfully entered on, and made large excavations in, the street, between her lot and the track, causing the earth in the street to slide into such excavations, and destroying the carriage-way in said street by which she, prior thereto, had access to her premises, rendering them unsafe for occupation, and diminishing their rental value in…