Denver Circle R. v. Nestor
Supreme Court of Colorado
Appeal from Superior Court of Denver. The complaint alleges damages done to appellee’s property, consisting of two lots with dwelling-house and other improvements thereon, abutting on a street called “Willow Lane,” in Witter’s first addition to the city of Denver, by the construction of appellant’s railroad track, and the running thereon in said street of its trains of-cars propelled by steam-engines.
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Appeal from Superior Court of Denver. The complaint alleges damages done to appellee’s property, consisting of two lots with dwelling-house and other improvements thereon, abutting on a street called “Willow Lane,” in Witter’s first addition to the city of Denver, by the construction of appellant’s railroad track, and the running thereon in said street of its trains of-cars propelled by steam-engines. The injuries and annoyances complained of are the excavation and obstruction of the street in front of appellee’s property, so as to prevent ingress and egress to and from the same, casting upon…
1Opinion of the Court
Beck, C. J..
The first and fifth assignments of error attack the jurisdiction and practice of the superior court. The first alleges that the court did not have jurisdiction of the subject-matter of the action; the fifth is to the effect that no term of said court existed at the time of the trial below, in October, 1884, the September term having lapsed for failure of the judge to appear on the first day of the term; that the practice provided by law for the district courts, in such cases, not being applicable to said superior courts, the clerk thereof was without any authority to adjourn the…
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