Gough v. Goble

This case comes to us on appeal from a decree of the circuit court of Edgar County which denied a mandatory injunction to compel defendants to remove an obstruction from their land which allegedly impeded the natural flow of water from plaintiffs’ land. The case involves the question of whether defendants’ land was subjected to a perpetual easement of drainage in favor of plaintiffs’ land, and a freehold is therefore involved. The appeal'was properly taken directly to this court. Funston v. Hoffman, 232 Ill. 360.

Plaintiffs own 160 acres of farm land in Edgar County and defendants own 141…