Chicago & Alton Railroad v. Connors

Some twenty-six years ago the appellant constructed a railroad from the point where Braidwood is now situate, to Wilmington, under and by authority of the acts of the Legislature, and near to the land of the appellees lying between those points. The appellees sued appellant in an action on the case to recover damages alleged in their declaration to have been done to their land by means of flooding it by water, by the appellant digging a certain ditch along a portion of said railroad close to their land, several years subsequently to the building of the road and while the appellees were the…