City of Chicago v. Allcock

delivei’ed the opinion of the Court:

In 1873 the city of Chicago constructed a tunnel from Lake Michigan to near the corner of Twenty-second street and Ashland avenue, a distance of about six miles. The tunnel ran under and through the property of the plaintiff, and was, as appears from the evidence, nine feet high, nine feet wide, and below the surface of the ground about sixty feet. The construction of the tunnel caused a depression on the surface of the plaintiff’s lots of from four to five feet, at its center, extending in every direction thirty or forty feet. The fences and buildings on…