· 1/15/1869
Gillham v. Madison County Railroad
Citations
- 49 Ill. 484
Syllabus
<p>Surface waters—rights of the servient and dominant heritage. The owner of a servient heritage has no right, by embankments or other artificial means, to stop the natural flow of the surface water from the dominant heritage, and thus throw it back upon the latter.</p>
Judges: Breese
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