Bennett v. . R. R.

Civil action. This action was brought by the plaintiffs against the defendant and the city of Winston-Salem to recover damages for injury to their lot in said city, caused by the construction of a bridge or a viaduct and the approaches thereto, along Bank Street in said city, and between Liberty and Elm streets. It appears in the case that the defendant railroad company had laid a part of its track across Bank Street at grade, and, desiring to raise the grade of the street, and for that purpose to build the bridge in question and construct the approaches thereto, it obtained permission from…