City of Charleston v. Newman
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action for damages to real property. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Coles county; the Hon. L. C. Henley, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the May term, 1906.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Ramsay
delivered the opinion of the court.
A. J. Newman and Rose A. Newman, claiming to be the owners of two lots in the city of Charleston, in Coles county, brought suit in the Circuit Court of that county-to recover for damages alleged to have resulted from an excavation, by said city, of a street which ran along the front of said premises; that such excavation lowered said street in front of said premises to a depth of about four feet below what its level had formerly been, and that by reason thereof the right of ingress and egress was materially impaired; that some…
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