Collins v. Cosgrove-Meehan Coal Co.

Mr. Presiding Justice

Edwards delivered the opinion of the court.

Appellees recovered a verdict and judgment against appellant, amounting to $1,000, in the circuit court of Williamson county, for damages alleged to have been sustained through the overflow water from the coal mine of the latter, over the farm lands of the former.

It appears that appellant, in 1930, began pumping water from its mine into a ditch which flowed through appellees’ farm; that the ditch, due to a sediment in the mine water, became filled, and the water overflowed the banks and filled a depression caused by a subsidence…