City of Norman v. Ballard

This case involves the question of whether or not a municipality in Oklahoma may use a part of a street for a storage yard for materials and machinery belonging to and used by the municipality. The defendants in error, plaintiffs below, owned property which abutted on Front street, sometimes referred to as Jones street, in the city of Norman, defendant below and plaintiff in error here. The city of Norman was storing machinery and materials of different kinds on the west part of Front street, which runs north and south along the east side of the right of way of the Santa Fe Railroad between…