Swain v. Mehl
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Marshall county; the Hon. Theodore N. Gbeen, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the April term, 1916.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Carnes
David M. Swain and Verne Swain, the appellees, about 1891, drove a cluster of seven or. eight wooden piles in the Illinois River (a navigable stream) at Lacón, Illinois, for an aid in landing boats. The original piling stayed there seven or eight years. The life of a pile is said to be about ten years. Appellees replaced piles as they became useless from time to time from 1891 to 1914. They were used by appellees and other boatmen and were apparently an aid to navigation. In 1914 appellant’s boat collided with and broke them down. Appellees caused other piling to be driven in their place,…
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