Tunnel
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
A municipal corporation, authorized by law to improve a street by building on the line thereof a tunnel under a navigable river, incurs no liability for damages unavoidably caused to adjoining property by obstructing the street or river, unless such liability be imposed by statute. Northern Transp.
Co. v. Chicago, 99 U. S. 635, 25 L. Ed. 336.
Where a railroad company, having a right of way over a street, built a tunnel through it, it was held that its right to the surface was not impaired; Junction R. Co. v. Boyd, 8 Phila. (I'a.) 224.