Case ID: ill-ct-cl_5/html/0190-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice Leech", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(No. 894
    Claimant awarded $3,500.00.)
    County of LaSalle, State of Illinois, Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent.
    
      Opinion filed May 1, 1925.
    
    Non-liability of state — State not liable for overflow of water, causing damage, from Illinois & Mich. Canal. The decision of the court in the case of Allen v. State, supra, governs this claim.
    Lee O ’Neil Browne, for claimant.
    Oscar E. Carlstrom, Attorney General ; S. S. DuHamel, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent.
   Mr. Justice Leech

delivered the opinion of the court:

This is a claim for damages sustained by claimant, on its premises located a short distance west of the city of Ottawa, and known as the “LaSalle County Poor Farm”, or “Home”, by reason of the overflow of a canal owned by the State of Illinois; said damage having occurred on or about September 7, 1924, and as a result of which the crops raised on said farm were destroyed, the reasonable value of said crops being $3,500.00.

The demurrer filed by the Attorney General of the State of Illinois, is, as a matter of law, sustained.

We award claimant the sum of $3,500.00, on the grounds of equity and social justice.