Padfield v. Frey
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action on the case to recover damages for overflow of land. Appeal from the Circuit Court of St. Clair County; the Hon. Benjamin R. Burroughs, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Myers
This was an action on the case brought by appellant against appellees who were highway commissioners, to recover for damages alleged to be due to the negligence of appellees in causing water to overflow land occupied by appellant as a tenant. The land in question, forty acres, corners at the intersection of two highways, one known as the Mascoutah road running north and south, and the other the Shiloh road running east and west. The land lies south of the Shiloh .road and west of the Mascoutah road, so that the northeast corner of the land is the southwest corner of the intersection. All the…
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