Lanter v. Hartman
Appellate Court of Illinois
Trespass on the Case, for an obstruction of a watercourse. Appeal from the Circuit Court of St. Clair County; the Hon. William Hartzell, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the August term, 1900. Rehearing denied.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Bigelow
delivered the opinion of the court.
This case comes here by appeal from the Circuit Court of St. Clair County.
Appellant and appellee own adjoining farms; appellant’s farm of eighty acres lies south of appellee’s farm of eighty-five acres. The lands composing the two farms are nearly level, there being no natural sloughs or watercourses through them, by which the surface water falling upon them, drains off. The northeast corner of appellee’s farm is about one foot higher than the southwest corner of appellant’s farm, so that the waters falling upon appellee’s land…
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