Grootens v. State

This claim is for $12,000.00 damages alleged to have been caused to the property of claimants by the construction of State Route No. 13. The property is located in Park Place Addition to the City of Carbondale and is adjacent to Route 13. The declaration charges that the State of Illinois. through its agents and servants, improperly, negligently and unlawfully constructed said highway, in this, that it failed to provide the necessary and adequate culverts, and other adequate drains, wherewith to adequately drain the water from the property.

Route No. 13 is one of the public highways of the…