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Tunnel

Defined in 1 dictionary — Bouvier (1914)

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

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.