Beidler v. Sanitary District
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. E. E. Dunne, Judge, presiding. This suit was brought in the circuit court of Cook county by George Beidler and others, who are owners as tenants in common of the lots hereinafter mentioned, against the Sanitary District of Chicago, to recover as damages the amount expended by plaintiffs in deepening or lowering the canals hereinafter referred to, and in repairing certain docks fronting on said canals and the south branch…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. E. E. Dunne, Judge, presiding. This suit was brought in the circuit court of Cook county by George Beidler and others, who are owners as tenants in common of the lots hereinafter mentioned, against the Sanitary District of Chicago, to recover as damages the amount expended by plaintiffs in deepening or lowering the canals hereinafter referred to, and in repairing certain docks fronting on said canals and the south branch of the Chicago river, and for permanent injury to said lots, the nature of which is not specified. The form of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scott
Appellants are the owners of sixty-six lots, all of which they claim were damaged by the act of the Sanitary District of Chicago in lowering the- general level of the water in the south branch of the Chicago river. Seven of these lots front or abut on this branch of the river. The others front on canals, leading from the south branch at right angles to the general course of the stream. It is contended by appellee that appellants have no riparian rights appurtenant to those lots which do not abut on the river, and this presents the first question for our determination.
At the time the canals…
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