Suehr v. Sanitary District
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action on the case. Appeal from the Circuit Court of La Salle county; the Hon. Edgar Eldkedge, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Willis
This was an action of trespass on the case brought by Julius Suehr, appellee, against the Sanitary District of Chicago, appellant, to recover damages for injuries to his real estate, caused by the construction and use of the drainage channel of appellant and the flow of water from Lake Michigan through said channel into the Des Plaines river and thence into the Illinois river. Appellee’s real estate here in question consisted of an island of about eleven and one-half acres of tillable land, situated in the Illinois river near the city of Ottawa in LaSalle county and reached to the center…
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