Pinkstaff v. Steffy
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ or Error to the Circuit Court of Lawrence county; the Hon. E. E. Newlin, Judge, presiding. Defendants in error exhibited their bill in chancery to the October term, 1904, of the circuit court of Lawrence county, praying for an injunction restraining plaintiff in error from repairing or re-building any line of levee or embankment on the north and east sides of plaintiff in error’s land.
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Writ or Error to the Circuit Court of Lawrence county; the Hon. E. E. Newlin, Judge, presiding. Defendants in error exhibited their bill in chancery to the October term, 1904, of the circuit court of Lawrence county, praying for an injunction restraining plaintiff in error from repairing or re-building any line of levee or embankment on the north and east sides of plaintiff in error’s land. Defendant in error Richard Steffy owns the south-west quarter of the south-west quarter of section 33, in town 5, range 11, defendant in error Malinda A. Steffy owns the south half of the north-east…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Ricks
As this cause was heard by the chancellor in open court we will not feel authorized to disturb the findings and decree unless from a review of the evidence we are satisfied that the decree is so manifestly against and contrary to the weight of the evidence that it ought' not to be allowed to stand.
We have read the evidence as abstracted and considered it with care, and concur in the view of the court that the lands of the defendants in error are the dominant heritage, and that according to their natural contour and the lay of their surface the drainage of surface waters from the portion of…
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