Christie v. Sanitary District

This suit is an appeal from a judgment of the Schuyler county circuit court for the sum of $109,928.12 and costs, including $10,000 attorneys’ fees, recovered by appellee against appellant, for the overflow of lands, claimed in the declaration. The suit was commenced on September 5, 1923, and judgment was entered in the Schuyler county circuit court at the April term, 1927. We shall denominate the appellee as plaintiff and appellant as defendant. As there is serious controversy over the pleadings in this cause, we set out their substance quite fully.

“The declaration upon which the plaintiff…