Christensen v. Mann

The following opinion was filed June 22, 1925:

Dokrfler, J.

As is evident from the agreement of June 26th, it is claimed by the defendant Mann that he is not liable for the cost of underpinning; that generally, under the law of lateral support, this expense and this obligation, under the facts in this case, must be borne by the owners of the Arcade; that inasmuch as the Arcade owners and their contractors constructed their north wall by a process of continuous pouring, so as to make the building practically monolithic, instead of building this wall in small sections, that therefore they used an…