Chicago & Alton Railroad v. Glenney

This was an action on the case brought by appellee against appellant in the Will County Circuit Court. There are four counts in the declaration, none of them substantially different. The gist of the complaint is that appellant, by digging a ditch along the side of its track for some distance, brought a large volume of water into a slough running through appellee’s farm, which did not naturally run through the slough, and by thus increasing the volume of the water in the slough caused it to overflow appellee's land and thereby destroyed' his meadow. The second count differs from the other…