Powell v. Village of Mt. Zion

The plaintiffs appeal the trial court’s order dismissing their second amended complaint. The plaintiffs own homes in Mt. Zion, Illinois; they alleged that the defendants’ negligence caused a sanitary sewer to back up, flooding their basements.

The trial court’s order was general, not specifying any grounds for the decision. Thus we must review every issue raised in the motions and argued on appeal. (Doner v. Phoenix Joint Stock Land Bank (1942), 381 Ill. 106, 45 N.E.2d 20; Mid-Town Petroleum, Inc. v. Dine (1979), 72 Ill. App. 3d 296, 390 N.E.2d 428.) Placing in the record the reasons for the…