Goodloe v. City of Richmond

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Richardson

Reversing.

The decisive question involved herein is the property right of the owner of lots abutting on a street, with the consent of an intervening abutting owner, to construct below the surface of the street, between the lots of the two, a water line for the use of the abutting owner’s property.

In August, 1930, George Goodloe was the owner of certain lots in the city of Richmond; one abutting on the south side of "Water street, the other abutting on South Main street. The lots extend entirely through the square on which they are located. Main street is…