{ "id": 2518755, "name": "Illinois Central Railroad Company v. Trustees of Schools, for use, etc.", "name_abbreviation": "Illinois Central Railroad v. Trustees of Schools", "decision_date": "1906-09-14", "docket_number": "", "first_page": "111", "last_page": "116", "citations": [ { "type": "official", "cite": "128 Ill. App. 111" } ], "court": { "name_abbreviation": "Ill. 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Trustees of Schools, for use, etc." ], "opinions": [ { "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice Myers\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\nWe adopt appellant\u2019s statement of the case as quite sufficient for discussion of the errors assigned and considered in this appeal.\nThe plaintiffs, appellees, sue as trustees of schools for the use of School District No. 2 in the city of Murphy sh oro, Jackson county, Illinois. They seek to recover damages from appellant railroad company under the constitutional provision that private property shall not be taken or damaged without just compensation.\nThe railroad is constructed and operated on appellant\u2019s own premises adjoining the school house grounds. It is built in a natural depression upon an embankment about eighteen feet high, bringing the track about on a level with the first floor of the school house. The school house is a two-story brick building. The main building is 50x70 with a wing on the east and west side, said wings being 18x22. The main building was built in 1867-68.. The railroad is on the south of the building. The south line of the school lot, which is about two acres in extent, is the north line of the railroad right of way. The railroad was built in 1898. From the center of the railroad track to the school house is 188 feet. The ground slopes from tire school house to the railroad right of way. The railroad consists of one track with a grade of about one per cent, ascending toward the west.\nThe declaration consists of one count in which it is averred that appellant constructed its railroad track south of said premises and is maintaining and operating a railroad thereon and charges that in passing said school premises the locomotive engines emit, discharge and .throw out and stir up great volumes of smoke, cinders, ashes and dust and cast and throw the same daily over, upon and into said premises; that numerous trains pass said premises daily, and by reason of their great weight and momentum, and the vapidity of their speed, cause loud and ominous noises and make the ground to tremble, vibrate and shake, thus causing the school in said premises to be disturbed, and frequently suspended; that the value of said premises has depreciated on account of the alleged injuries in the sum of $8,000.\nThe case was first tried in the Circuit Court of Jackson county, on January 17, 1902. The jury on that trial failed to agree and the cause was continued. A year later another trial was had and on January 16, 1903, the jury assessed the plaintiff\u2019s damages at $2,500. A remittitur of $700 having heen entered by the plaintiffs, judgment was rendered for $1,800, and an appeal allowed to this court, where the ease was heard at the August term, 1903, and an opinion filed affirming the judgment. 112 App. 488. On appeal to the Supreme Court that court in an opinion filed October 24, 1904, reversed the judgment of this court and of the Circuit Court and remanded the case. 212 Ill. 406. The case was again tried and, on October 7, 1905/ the jury assessed the plaintiff\u2019s damages at $3,000, upon which verdict the court, after overruling the defendant\u2019s motion for a new trial and motion in arrest of judgment, entered judgment on the verdict. From which judgment appellant appealed to this court.\nThis action Was originally brought, tried, prosecuted and defended on appeal through the Appellate and Supreme Courts, upon the theory that the special damages sustained by appellees were in the disturbance of the school and the use of the property for school purposes, caused by the noise, vibrations, dust, cinders, ashes and smoke from the engines and trains in operation on appellant\u2019s railroad. In the last trial, and on this appeal, the appellees seem to have abandoned altogether any claim for damages to the use of the premises for school purposes by reason of school disturbance, other than that caused by injury to the building, and to rely solely upon injuries to the'property due to vibration of the ground and, as it is now claimed, the consequent cracking and crumbling of the walls of the school building. In the trial appellees\u2019 testimony was directed to prove the effect upon the building of vibration caused by moving trains over the railroad. A number of witnesses were called and testified upon this question. To this testimony appellant made timely objection upon the ground stated, that no injury was alleged or damages claimed to the building or land itself from the vibration mentioned in the declaration. The objection was overruled, exceptions preserved, and the ruling of the court in that regard is now properly before us for review on error duly assigned. It is insisted by counsel for appellant, and as we think with sufficient reason, that there was here a variance between the allegation and proof respecting the damage claimed and the cause producing it. It is an established rule that the proof must accord with the allegations, that the evidence must fit the pleading, and, to be relevant and admissible, must bear upon the issues made by the pleading. This is a fundamental proposition from which there will be no dissent. The rule is stated in. 22 Ency. Pl. & Pr. 527: \u201cIt.is a general rule in actions at law, that in order to enable a plaintiff to recover or a defendant to succeed in his defense, what is proved or that of which proof is offered by the party on whom lies the onus probandi must not vary from what he has previously alleged in his pleading; and this is not a mere arbitrary rule, but is one founded in reason and good sense, as well as good law.\u201d In Wabash Ry. Co. v. Billings, 212 Ill. 37, the Supreme Court, after a general statement of the rule that the allegations and proofs must correspond, adds: \u201cboth for the purpose of specifically advising the opposite party of what he is called upon to answer, and also of preserving a record of the cause of action as a protection against another suit based upon the same cause of action.\u201d Further on, in the same opinion, it is said: \u201cEvery allegation which is descriptive of the cause of action must be proved as alleged in the pleading, and any variance therefrom .is fatal unless it is waived by not calling it to the attention of the trial court or is cured by an amendment of the pleading. Even if there are unnecessary allegations, descriptive of what is material, they must be proved.\u201d The allegation under which the testimony was offered and challenged in this case is, \u201cthat numerous trains pass said premises daily, and by reason of their great weight and momentum and rapidity of their speed, cause loud and ominous noises, and make the ground to tremble, vibrat\u00e9 and shake, thus causing the school in said premises to be disturbed, and frequently suspended; that the said railroad is of a permanent nature and will entail continuous damage to plaintiff.\u201d How, and in what way? In the manner alleged, by \u201ccausing the school on said premises to be disturbed and frequently suspended.\u201d To recover in this case it was necessary to prove that appellees suffered a special damage with respect to their property in .excess of that sustained by the public generally. Rigney v. Chicago, 102 Ill. 64; Aldrich v. Metropolitan W. S. El. R. R. Co., 195 Ill. 456. Under the law and the circumstances shown, it may not be assumed that appellees sustained damage with respect to their property in excess of that sustained by the public generally, that is, that the damages here sought to be recovered necessarily accrued from the operation of trains over the railroad. In such case, it would seem that they were required, under the rules of pleading, to allege the particular damage sustained, to enable them to give evidence of it. Adams v. Gardner, 78 Ill. 568. But, whether required to so allege or not, it was done in this case, and having alleged the special damage, the evidence should have been confined to that allegation, for it may fairly be presumed to include all the damages claimed. English v. City of Danville, 69 App. 288. A party may aver unnecessarily more than is required to sustain his cause of action, but, as a general rule, he must prove the averments of his pleadings as he makes them. Bell v. Senneff, 83 Ill. 122; Wabash Western Ry. Co. v. Friedman, 146 Ill. 583; Lake St. El. R. R. Co. v. Collins, 118 App. 270. If to the declaration in this case we apply the rule which obtains in the construction of contracts, and give to it the interpretation as construed by the parties themselves, it may fairly be said that damages of the character now claimed were not in contemplation when the declaration was filed, or on the first appeal, until after the opinion of the Supreme Court was announced. Concerning a departure in action or defense of a case that has once been tried, the Supreme Court, in Telford v. Howell, 220 Ill. 58, said: \u201cWhile it is true that pleadings may be amended, varying the statement of the \"cause - of action or ground of defense, so as to make the same conform to the real facts, as developed or ascertained in the progress of litigation, yet, it is also true, that a radical change in the pleadings as to those facts of which the party making the amendment must all the time have had personal cognizance, is calculated to arouse suspicion and to call for a careful examination of the circumstances under which the new theory of the case is thus advanced.\u201d See also W. R. R. Co. v. Jones, 121 App. 390. There was no change in the pleadings as there should have been to accord with a complete change in theory respecting the nature of \u25a0 the damages sustained. The evidence offered as to damages was not within the allegations of the declaration and should have been ruled out. There was a material variance, to which the attention of the court and counsel was called in apt time and this might have been avoided by an amendment. Without this evidence, improperly admitted, the verdict is without support, but as there is some evidence which, under proper pleading, may tend to prove the recently discovered damages, the judgment will be reversed and the cause remanded.\n'Reversed and remanded.", "type": "majority", "author": "Mr. Presiding Justice Myers" } ], "attorneys": [ "Sidney F. Andrews and A. P. Hamburg, for appellant; J. M. Dickinson, of counsel.", "James H. Martin, for appellee." ], "corrections": "", "head_matter": "Illinois Central Railroad Company v. Trustees of Schools, for use, etc.\n1. Variance\u2014what constitutes. Evidence of injury to land and the building thereon by vibration of passing trains is inadmissible where the declaration does not allege that injury resulted to such land and building from such cause.\n2. Injury to beat, property\u2014what essential to recover for, resulting from construction and operation of railroad. To recover in such case it is necessary to prove that the plaintiff suffered a special damage with 'respect to his property in excess of that sustained by the public generally.\n3. Declaration\u2014how far allegations of, must he proven. Allegations, though unnecessary, if made, must be proved.\nAction in tort to recover damages to real property. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Jackson county; the Hon. William N. Butler, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the February term, 1906.\nReversed and remanded.\nOpinion filed September 14, 1906.\nSidney F. Andrews and A. P. Hamburg, for appellant; J. M. Dickinson, of counsel.\nJames H. Martin, for appellee." }, "file_name": "0111-01", "first_page_order": 129, "last_page_order": 134 }