Sanitary District v. Ray

The appellee obtained a judgment in the circuit court of Will county against the appellant for loss and injury to his crops on forty acres of land which he possessed as tenant, for the years 1897,1898 and 1899. The action and recovery were based on the alleged negligence of appellant in constructing what is called the “river diversion” in connection with its drainage canal, whereby the waters of the DesPlaines river were diverted from their original channel and caused to flow through a new channel of insufficient depth and width to carry off such-waters, so that plaintiff’s adjoining lands…