Illinois Cent. R. v. Wright

This cause is before this court on an appeal by the IIlinois Central Eailroad Company from a judgment of the circuit court of De Soto county, based on the verdict of a jury awarding the plaintiff, F. E. Wright, the sum of two thousand dollars as compensation for damage done to crops growing, upon lands adjacent to the right of way of said railroad company, the declaration in said cause averring, among other things, that in the construction and maintenance of its railroad embankment the defendant had disregarded the fact that this embankment obstructed the drainage of plaintiff’s lands, and…