Sterling Hydraulic Co. v. Williams
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Whiteside county. ^B This was an action of covenant by the appellees against the appellant.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Whiteside county. ^B This was an action of covenant by the appellees against the appellant. The breaches of the covenant assigned were: 1, That the defendant did not keep its dam, race, bulkhead or ice-breaker in good and sufficient repair for the proper protection of the property, rights and privileges in the deed mentioned and conveyed, but on the contrary thereof then and there suffered and permitted the said dam, etc., to become defective, rotten, and out of repair, by means whereof said dam, etc., were destroyed and- earned away by the water and ice…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sheldon
This was an action of covenant upon a certain deed executed by the Sterling Hydraulic Company, of Sterling, 111., to David Williams and Brainard E. Orton.
The deed, after conveying two parcels of land by metes and bounds, the description showing them to be evidently connected with, and to be for the use of a water power, “expressly reserves to the company, its successors and assigns, a right of way for the passage of teams over and across said pieces and parcels of land, together with the right at all times to enter upon said premises, or any part of the same, for the purpose of all necessary…
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