Sanitary District v. Joliet Pioneer Stone Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Trespass on the Case, for damages to the land by flooding. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Will County; the Hon. Robert W. Hilsoher, Judge presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1903.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Dibell
delivered -the opinion of the court.
This was a suit brought by the Joliet Pioneer Stone Company against the Sanitary District of Chicago to recover damages for the overflow and destruction of the beneficial use of certain of plaintiff's lands by water discharged into the Desplaines river from defendant’s drainage channel. To a declaration consisting of original and additional counts defendant pleaded the general issue. There was a jury trial and a verdict and a judgment for plaintiff for $3,000, from which judgment defendant prosecutes this appeal.
The argument of defendant is mainly devoted…
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