Godfrey v. Dixon Power & Lighting Co.

The appellees recovered a judgment against appellants for $15,000. An appeal was taken to the Appellate Court, and that court, finding that a freehold was involved, transferred the cause to this court.

The action was for damages occasioned by the destruction of a certain dam across the Rock river and of the water power connected with it. A litigation between these same parties concerning this dam was before us at a former term. (Godfrey v. Dixon Power Co. 228 Ill. 487.) The opinion in that case states many facts material to this controversy which will be referred to but not repeated here.

A dam…