Water Co. v. Ware
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the.Circuit Court for Minnesota; the case being thus: The city of St. Paul, desiring to have water-pipes laid along the streets of the city, passed an ordinance authorizing the St. Paul Water Company, an incorporated company, so to lay them.
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Error to the.Circuit Court for Minnesota; the case being thus: The city of St. Paul, desiring to have water-pipes laid along the streets of the city, passed an ordinance authorizing the St. Paul Water Company, an incorporated company, so to lay them. But as it was necessary that large excavations of the earth should be.made along the -streets, and considerable blasting of rock, below, the ordinance in one of its sections, the 6th, thus provided : “The said water company expressly agrees to. protect all persons against damages by reason of excavations made by them in the said city, in laying…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
Injuries of a physical nature were received by the plain tiff through an obstruction in one of the public streets of the city of St; Paul, occasioned, as be alleges, by an employé of thje corporation defendants, for whose acts they are responsible, and he instituted the present suit to recover compensation for those injuries. Service was made, and the defendánts appeared, and the parties went to trial, and the verdict and judgment were for the plaintiff; and the defendants excepted and sued hut this writ of error.
Evidence was introduced by the plaintiff tending to show that where the aecideut…
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