City of East St. Louis v. O'Flynn

This action was brought in the city court of East St. Louis, by James O’Flynn, against the city of East St. Louis, to recover damages alleged to have been occasioned to a lot of ground owned by him, by the wrongful conduct of defendant. It is recited in the declaration, defendant is an incorporated city, and had exclusive control of certain streets within the corporation limits, viz., Trendly street, Church street, and Pratt street, running at right angles with the Mississippi river on the eastern bank, and from thence eastward to the old bed of the river, near the mouth of Cahokia creek, and…