Creal v. City of Keokuk

Opinion by

KíNney, J.

The plaintiff filed his petition, claiming three hundred dollars damages for being compelled to raise his brick store house, in block twenty-eight, in the city of Keokuk, in order to suit the grade of Main street, as established by the city council. He alleges that he was subjected to the above damages in consequence of a change in the grade made by the city after he had built his store house, and by which he was governed in the erection *48of said building. To this the defendant answered that the city was not liable to pay any damages that the plaintiff indirectly or…