Davis v. Summerfield.

One of the questions presented by this appeal is a most important one, and that question is whether or not the owner of a city lot is liable for an injury done to an adjoining proprietor’s brick wall, through the negiigence of an independent contractor in excavating for the purpose of building a-wall against and alongside the adjoining proprietor’s wall, and where the excavation extended below the foundation of the wall of the adjoining proprietor.

There was evidence offered on the trial tending to show that the excavating, which the jury found was the cause of the injury to the plaintiff’s…