Illinois Central Railroad v. Grabill

This was an action on the case, brought to the Champaign Circuit Court, by Catharine Grabiil, against the Illinois Central Railroad Company, to recover damages for the disturbance of her enjoyment of certain premises owned and occupied by her in the city of Urbana, caused by the negligent, careless and improper manner in which the defendants kept and maintained a certain cattle pen, which they had erected near her premises—they permitting dead carcasses of cattle and hogs to remain in it until they had become rotten and putrid, and suffering filth to accumulate in it and remain an unnecessary…