Legal Opinion
Otis Gosnell, Sandra Gosnell, and Supreme Supplies, Inc. v. City of Troy, Illinois
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 5, 1995No. 94-3814PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
In 1978 plaintiffs (collectively the Gosnells) filed a plat for the construction of a residential subdivision. The Troy City Council approved, and the Gosnells set to work. As construction crews dug a drainage swale in 1983, springs underneath began to fill it with water; crews tried to solve this problem by digging a wider swale, which did not work. Before long the subdivision had a lagoon. A1 Hemann, chairman of the City’s planning commission, complained to Mayor Ron Criley that the Gosnells were doing more excavation than their plat showed. After a meeting of the…
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