Bluhm v. Blanck & Gargaro, Inc.

Plaintiff instituted Ms action in the Common Pleas Court against the defendant for the recovery of property damages resulting from blasting operations conducted by the defendant as contractor in the construction of a sewer by the city of Columbus along an alley adjacent to the real estate of the plaintiff.

It is specifically averred in the amended petition that “on or about October 1, 1935, and for about three weeks thereafter, the defendant, while constructing said tunnel, loosed and removed the earth and rock therein by means of blasts of high powered explosives which said blasts .of said…