City of Chicago v. Huenerbein

Hr. Justice Walkeb

delivered the opinion of the Court:

This was an action of case, against the city of Chicago, to recover damages produced by throwing stone, earth, etc., into the mouth of a small stream that usually discharged into the canal, whereby water was dammed and flowed back on the land, and six or seven acres could not be planted or cultivated during the years 1871, 1872 and 1873. The court below permitted appellee to prove that if the land had been planted with potatoes, the ground would have yielded two hundred bushels to the acre, and that they would have sold at about an average…