Blain v. City of Delphi

This was an action by appellant, as receiver of an insolvent firm of contractors, to recover from the city of Delphi compensation for grading and graveling certain streets, and building sidewalks, curbs and retaining walls on either side as an incident of improving them, pursuant to a declaratory resolution and other proceedings under the statute which authorizes street improvements to be made at the expense of abutting lot owners, and also to recover for building a bridge and abutments by which one of the streets improved was carried across a deep cut made in improving another of them, and…