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Material Taken From Streets In Grading--Rights Of Adjoining Lot-Owner, Thomas M. Cooley
Material Taken From Streets In Grading--Rights Of Adjoining Lot-Owner, Thomas M. Cooley
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"In grading a street for the purpose of paving, it was necessary to remove earth which the city had no occasion for, and the street commissioner sold the same to a party who removed and used it. In an action to recover the purchase-price the purchaser defended, claiming that the city did not own the earth, but that it was owned by the adjoining lot-owners..."