Dial v. City of O'Fallon

How courts have described this case

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• holding “courts in Illinois have long recognized the legal principle that a plaintiff shall have only one satisfaction for an injury . . . irrespective of the availability of multiple theories that recovery for the injury can be sought under.”
• explaining distinctions between conduct intended to cause an intrusion on plaintiffs premises, negligent conduct that causes an intrusion, and conduct that is ultrahazardous and causes an intrusion
• setting forth the elements to be pleaded for an ejection action
• supreme court sua sponte remanded case to determine whether a setoff was appropriate in order to prevent double recovery
• a defendant commits a trespass by “causing a thing or a third person to enter the land of another”
• a defendant commits a trespass by \causing a thing or a third person to enter the land of another\

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