Economy Light & Power Co. v. Cutting
Appellate Court of Illinois
Memorandum.—Action for damages caused by overflow of water. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Will County; the Hon. Dorrance Dibbel, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the May term, A. I). 1893, and affirmed.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the Court,
Cartwright, J.
This is a suit by appellee against appellant for damages occasioned by appellant flooding her land with water. She obtained a verdict for $577.80, on which judgment was entered.
On the trial it was proved that plaintiff was the owner of an island in the Desplaines River, a short distance above the junction of that river with the Illinois and Michigan canal at Joliet. Below such junction the river constituted a portion of the canal, and was adapted to such use by a dam across the river about a mile below the junction for the purpose of navigation. The island…
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