Illinois Supreme Court February 21, 1907 (St. Louis Merchants' Bridge Terminal Ry. Ass'n v. Schultz)

Mr. Chief Justice Scott

delivered the opinion of the court:

In the city court of East St. Louis appellee,recovered a judgment against appellant for the sum of $999 for damages occasioned by the flooding of farm land, resulting, as he contends, from a grade constructed by appellant which wrongfully interfered with the natural course of drainage.