Dial v. City of O'fallon

A jury in the Circuit Court of St. Clair County awarded plaintiffappellee Geraldine Dial the sum of *23,000 as damages occasioned by the backup of sewage into her home from a sanitary sewer system operated by the defendant-appellant, the City of O’Fallon. The city filed a post-trial motion seeking in the alternative a new trial, a reduction in the amount of damages awarded, or a judgment notwithstanding the verdict. This appeal followed denial of the post-trial motion.

The plaintiff’s amended complaint alleged that her home was inundated by sewage from the city sewer system; that the city’s…