Strange v. Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action on the case. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Crawford county; the Hon. E. E. Newlin, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the February term, 1909.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shirley
The pleadings upon which this cause was tried consisted of a declaration of three counts to which there was a plea of the general issue.
In the first count of the declaration it was averred that appellee was the owner and in possession of a tract of eighty acres of land except one hundred feet off the west side possessed by the appellant in connection with a certain other one hundred feet adjoining; that appellant wrongfully, unlawfully and permanently erected and built, maintained and continued a permanent levee, embankment or railroad grade through the center of its said real estate of great…
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