Murray v. Gibson
Appellate Court of Illinois
In error to the Circuit Court of Livingston County; the Hon. N. J. Pillsbury, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtLacey, J.
This was a suit originally commenced before a Justice of the Peace to recover for injury to appellant’s land by means of a ditch dug by defendant John T. Gibson, along the east end of appellant’s eighty-acre tract of "land, but within the public highway. The appellant recovered before the Justice, but upon appeal to the Circuit Court was defeated, the jury finding verdict for defendant, and upon motion for new trial being overruled judgment was rendered against appellant for costs, from which judgment this appeal is taken.
The facts of the case, as far as they are undisputed, are, that…
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