Chaplin v. Commissioners of Highways
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Second District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Will county; the Hon. Dorrance Dibell, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery, brought by James Chaplin against the Highway Commissioners of the Township of Wheat-land, in Will county, to restrain said commissioners from digging or opening a ditch or drain across certain lands of the complainant.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Second District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Will county; the Hon. Dorrance Dibell, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery, brought by James Chaplin against the Highway Commissioners of the Township of Wheat-land, in Will county, to restrain said commissioners from digging or opening a ditch or drain across certain lands of the complainant. The bill alleges that the complainant is the owner of a tract of land in said township of Wheatland, lying south of and adjoining the highway running east and west between said…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bailey
This case comes here on appeal from the Appellate Court, without any certificate by the judges of that court that it involves questions of law of such importance, either on account of principal or collateral interests, that it should be passed upon by this court. It does not involve $1000. The damages awarded the complainant by the jury in the condemnation proceedings were only $12, and none of the witnesses upon the hearing in the court below estimated the complainant’s damages by reason of the digging and maintaining of the proposed drain as high as $1000. The complainant himself, in his…
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