Deterding v. Central Illinois Public Service Co.

This case is brought to this court upon petition of plaintiff in error for a writ of certiorari to review a judgment of the Appellate Court affirming a decree of the circuit court in favor of defendants in error, as prayed in their bill.

Defendants in error are the owners of farm lands in Christian county on and along a water-course known as the South Fork of the Sangamon river. In 1913 plaintiff in error acquired the title to a forty-acre tract of land on the same river, below or further down the stream than the lands of defendants in error, and constructed thereon a generating station for…