Cincinnati & Suburban Bell Telephone Co. v. Eadle

OPINION

By MATTHEWS, J.

The plaintiff in' this action seeks to recover for damages to equipment which the City of Cincinnati had authorized it to install in Queen City Avenue, one of its public streets, beneath the sidewalk, and which the defendant disturbed while excavating preparatory to erecting a building on an abutting lot. The jury returned a verdict for the defendant upon which judgment was rendered. This appeal is from that judgment.

The equipment consisted of telephone and firealarm cables, protected by tile conduits. The sections of the conduit weighed about ninety pounds each and were…