East St. Louis & Carondelet Railway Co. v. Eisentraut

Citations

• 134 Ill. 96
• 24 N.E. 760
• 1890 Ill. LEXIS 945

Syllabus

<p>Wateb-cotjbse—diverting from its natural channel—liability for damages resulting. Where a railway company diverts the flow of a watercourse from its natural channel, and conducts it through a ditch to a point where it overflows the land of another, the company will be liable for such damages as result therefrom.</p>