Ribordy v. Pellachoud
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Livingston County; the lion. R„ J. Pillsihjry, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtC. B. Smith, J.
This is an action brought by appellee against appellant in ease, charging him with stopping up a ditch and thus throwing water back on his land and destroying his crops. It appears from the evidence that appellee owned forty acres of land lying directly west and adjacent to forty acres owned by appellant on the east. There was some wet land on appellee’s lot, and particularly near his west line was a low dejrression, much like a pond, which held move or less'water. It was all open prairie land and there seems to have been very slight.fall for this water in any direction, and there was a…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Peck v. HerringtonIllinois Supreme Court · 1884
- Totel v. BonnefoyIllinois Supreme Court · 1888
- Deyo v. FerrisAppellate Court of Illinois · 1886