Case Name: Peter Hackethal, Appellee, v. East Side Levee & Sanitary District, Appellant
Court: Illinois Appellate Court
Jurisdiction: Illinois
Decision Date: 1918-04-05
Citations: 211 Ill. App. 119
Docket Number: 
Parties: Peter Hackethal, Appellee, v. East Side Levee & Sanitary District, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Illinois Appellate Court Reports
Volume: 211
Pages: 119–120

Head Matter:
Peter Hackethal, Appellee, v. East Side Levee & Sanitary District, Appellant.
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Abstract of the Decision.
1. Sanitary districts, § 17a — When instruction on liability for loss of crops due to flooding because of levee embankment is erroneous. In an action by a landowner against a levee and sanitary district to recover damages for injury to crops by overflow, caused by a levee constructed by defendant and by a railroad embank ment, an instruction that even if the jury found from the evidence that the railroad embankment combined with defendant’s levee caused the damage to plaintiff’s crops by holding the water upon the lands of plaintiff, still this would not relieve defendant from liability, and as to such damages, if any, they should find for plaintiff, was erroneous where the respective embankments were constructed by the sanitary district and railroad individually at different times, and neither had anything to do with the construction of the other’s embankment.
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Madison county; the Hon. Louis Bernbeuteb, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1917.
Reversed and remanded.
Opinion filed April 5, 1918.
Rehearing denied June 22, 1918.
Statement of the Case.
Action by Peter Hackethal, plaintiff, against East Side Levee & Sanitary District, defendant, to recover damages for injury to crops by overflow caused by an embankment of a canal constructed by defendant and also by a railroad embankment. From a judgment for plaintiff for $700, defendant appeals.
See also the cases of Handfelder v. East Side Levee & Sanitary Dist., 194 Ill. App. 262, and Hoehn v. East Side Levee & Sanitary Dist., 203 Ill. App. 48, in which the principal questions involved were determined.
F. A. Garesche, J. B. Harris and D. H. Mudge, for appellant; Thomas E. Gillespie, of counsel.
Burton & Burton, for appellee.
See Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number.
See Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number,

Opinion:
Mr. Justice McBride
delivered the opinion of the court.
2. Torts, § 23 — when wrongdoers liable only for amount contributed to damage sustained. If the wrong complained of consists of two independent acts and performed by two independent parties, at different times, each party will be liable only for the amount it contributed to the damage sustained.