Fincher v. Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railroad
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of St. Clair county; the Hon. George A. Crow, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1912.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Thompson
This suit is in case brought by appellee against appellant, to recover damages alleged to have resulted to her lands, by appellant improperly and unskilfully constructing and maintaining an embankment which she alleges causes water to come unnaturally upon her land and remain there to her injury and damage.
The declaration alleges ownership of the forty acres of land, claimed to have been damaged, in plaintiff, and that she has been owner of same since 1897. That for five years preceding the commencement of this suit said land had been in possession of her tenants under a lease by the terms of…
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- Illinois Central R. R. v. FerrellAppellate Court of Illinois · 1903
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