Stickford v. City of St. Louis
Stickford v. The City of St. Louis
Stickford v. City of St. Louis, 75 Mo. 309 (1882)
Headnotes
1. Damages: action. The various forms or subjects of injury sustained from a single wrongful act, do not multiply the causes of action.
2. -: pleading. In an action of damages against a municipal corporation for an injury to property caused by a change of grade of a street, when the plaintiff owns the fee of one lot, and a leasehold with rent of the adjoining lot, he may sue in one count for the damage to both.
.3. -municipal corporation. The charter provision of 1870 • that the city shall be liable for damages sustained by property owners by reason of any change of the grade of a street, applies 1o a case where the change does not extend to the whole width of the roadbed, if the alteration is such as to raise or lower the principal current of travel and transportation.
4. -: -. The recovery is not- confined to such damage as results from some physical iujury to the buildings; it is enough that a depreciation in value results from the change of grade.*
Summary
Appear from St. Louis Court of Appeals.
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Henry, J.
The judgment of the court of appeals is, ■affirmed for the reasons assigned by that court in its opinion delivered therein.
All concur.
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