Knoll v. Swanson

This is an appeal from the judgment of the circuit court of Vermilion County dismissing with prejudice, at plaintiffs’ costs, plaintiffs’ complaint as amended and permanently enjoining plaintiffs from filing or further prosecuting the cause of action or any other cause of action based on the facts alleged. The case arises out of a dispute over natural surface water drainage obstruction and an alleged oral settlement of the causes of action which plaintiffs thereafter repudiated.

Plaintiffs, Lawrence Knoll and Alfred Knoll, were owners of farmland in Butler Township, Vermilion County, situated…