Kehrer v. Richmond City
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of circuit court of city of Richmond, rendered May 30, 1884, sustaining.a demurrer to the declaration filed in a certain action of trespass on the case for damages, pending in said court, wherein Henry Kehrer, the plaintiff in error, was plaintiff, and the city of Richmond was defendant.
1Opinion of the Court
Lewis, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The declaration alleges that the plaintiff is, and for many years has been, seized in fee of a certain house and lot fronting on Venable street, in this city, where he resides and carries on a mercantile business. That on the-day of-, 1883, the city, by its agents, under pretext of grading and improving the said street, wrongfully and unlawfully, and without the plaintiff’s consent, threw earth from the street upon the premises of the plaintiff, so that the plaintiff was obliged, at his own costs, to remove the earth so thrown upon his premises,…
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