City of Valparaiso v. Adams

This was an action by the appellee against the appellant to recover damages growing out of the grading of a street in the city of Valparaiso. The complaint avers that the appellee is, and has been for the last ten years, the owner and in the possession of a certain described lot in the city of Valparaiso, of the value of two thousand dollars, on which tb,ere is situate a dwelling-house of the value of fifteen hundred dollars; that said lot is a corner lot, and faces to the south and west, and that the houses thereon are situate on the southwest corner and west and north half thereof; that the…