Overhouser v. American Cereal Co.

Ladd, O. J.

About the 19th day of November, 1899, a cellar was being excavated in a lot belonging to the American Cereal Company. The material taken therefrom, consisting of dirt and rock, was hauled about three blocks distant across the Cedar river, and dumped between it and First street of Cedar Rapids. The street was paved with brick a width of about thirty feet between the curbings. A crossing of dirt over the curbing was made near its intersection with F avenue, another to the south about half way tó E avenue, and, another used at B avenue, where there was no curbing. Stone and earth…