Zuidema v. Sanitary District of Chicago & Green & Sons Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Mazzini Slusser, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1919.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice O’Connor
delivered the opinion of the court.
Plaintiff brought suit against defendants to recover damages claimed to have been sustained by him by reason of the defendants causing water to overflow and damage his growing crops. There was a verdict and judgment in his favor for $2,900, to reverse which defendants prosecute this appeal. Plaintiff has assigned cross errors because the court refused to allow attorneys’ fees as costs against the Sanitary District of Chicago.
The record discloses that the sanitary district obtained a right of way to construct what is known as the…
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