Wahle v. Reinbach
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ op Error to the Circuit Court of Morgan county; the Hon. Cyrus Epler, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in equity, filed by the defendant in error against the plaintiff in error, to restrain the erection of a privy near to the residence and well of the complainant. The court below decreed the relief sought.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scholfield
This is a bill in equity, to enjoin a threatened nuisance. The substantial allegations of the bill are, that complainant is the owner and occupant of a certain lot, in the town of Jacksonville, on which is the residence now and for some time, past occupied by himself and family ; that respondent has become the owner of an adjoining lot, on which he is proceeding to construct a privy, within eight feet of complainant’s dwelling house and the cellar thereunder, and within twenty feet of the well of water from which complainant and his family are supplied with water for drinking and cooking and…
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