Peck v. Sterling Water Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action on the case for damages to personal property. Error to the Circuit Court of Whiteside County: the Hon. FrankD. Ramsay, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Dibell
delivered the. opinion of the court.
John Peck, plaintiff in error, brought this suit against the Sterling Water Company, defendant in error, to recover damages for loss of his planing mill and adjacént buildings and their contents by fire. His declaration consists of two counts', in which he set out at great length a contract between the city of Sterling and the water company for the erection by said water company of a system of water works in said city, and the maintenance of certain hydrants, pumping station, reservoirs, pumping engines and boilers of certain specified capacity, in which…
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