Hicks v. Silliman
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court of the Second District; the Hon. Nathaniel J. Pillsbujry, presiding Justice, and the Hon. Joseph Sibley and Hon. E. S. Leland, Justices.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court of the Second District; the Hon. Nathaniel J. Pillsbujry, presiding Justice, and the Hon. Joseph Sibley and Hon. E. S. Leland, Justices. This was a bill for an injunction, filed by H. E. Silliman, E. H. Preston, Hiram Reed, John Cutler, Mary R. Webster, John Sturm and Wallace Sturm, in the Peoria county circuit court, against Lucas Hicks, on the 3d day of October, 1877. The object of the bill was to perpetually enjoin the defendant from completing certain ditches and embankments which he was then engaged in constructing on his own lands, on the alleged ground…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Mulkey
A vast amount of testimony has been taken on both sides of this case, and the record is consequently quite voluminous. Nevertheless.we have, in view of its unquestioned importance, endeavored to arrive -at a clear .understanding of the facts. With respect to the evidence, it is to be remarked that there is really but little conflict to be found in it, except as to matters of mere opinion, about which honest men of equal intelligence might reasonably be expected to differ.
As to the salient facts in the case, and upon which the rights of the parties must in the main depend, the evidence is…
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