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  "id": 5295652,
  "name": "August Wegner v. Henry Meyer",
  "name_abbreviation": "Wegner v. Meyer",
  "decision_date": "1901-03-11",
  "docket_number": "",
  "first_page": "68",
  "last_page": "70",
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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      "cite": "124 Ill. 51",
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      "reporter": "Ill.",
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    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
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      "August Wegner v. Henry Meyer."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Worthington\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\nThe declaration contained four counts. The court instructed the jury to find for the defendant upon the fourth count. The jury found for the plaintiff upon the second and third counts in the sum of $50, for which judgment was rendered.\nThe second count charged that Wegner carelessly, negligently and unlawfully cut, scraped and dug the ground at or near the north line of Meyer\u2019s land and banked up the dirt and thereby turned the water over Meyer\u2019s ten acre tract. The third count charged that Wegner dug a ditch and made a levee and backed up the water upon Mejmr\u2019s land and diverted the water from its natural course over Meyer\u2019s land.\nThe analysis of the second and of the third count, as contained in appellant\u2019s brief, shows that they charged appellant himself with the ditching and leveeing that caused damage to appellee. They presented issues of fact upon which the jury found for appellee. If this finding was correct, no notice to appellant was necessary. It is only when a defendant owner is charged -with maintaining a nuisance caused by a former owner that notice is necessary. Groff v. Ankenbrandt, 124 Ill. 51.\nThis makes irrelevant the argument and citations with reference to notice, presented by counsel in their brief.\nThe objection made to the third instruction that it ignores giving notice, is not well taken for the same reason.\nInstructions numbered respectively eight and nine, referring to the fourth count, should not have been given, but as the court directed a verdict for appellant upon this count, we fail to see how appellant was injured by these instructions.\nThe tenth instruction, while not fully stating the law, when read in connection with others given for appellee and appellant, is not ground for reversal. All the law in a case like this can not well be stated in one instruction.\nThe same may be said of the twelfth and fifteenth instructions. The thirteenth instruction for defendant, refused by the court, is so inaccurately drawn as to be confusing and not easy to comprehend. ' The refusal to give number thirty-one, if error, was harmless error, the jury finding under the second and third counts for creating a nuisance, and not finding against the appellant for continuing one already created.\nThe same is true of number thirty-four refused.\nTaking the instructions given as a body, the jury was fairly instructed as to the law in the case, and upon the evidence and these instructions, have found for appellee upon the second and third counts of the declaration.\nWe see no valid reason for disregarding their finding and the judgment will therefore be affirmed.",
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        "author": "Mr. Justice Worthington"
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    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "W. F. L. Hadley and Burton & Wheeler, attorneys for appellant.",
      "Terry & Williamson, attorneys for appellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "August Wegner v. Henry Meyer.\n1. Nuisances \u2014 Continuation\u2014Notice to Abate, When Necessary.\u2014 Where a party comes into possession of land as grantee or lessee, with an existing nuisance upon it, he can not be liable to an action for damages until he has first been notified to remove it.\nAction on the Case, for maintaining a nuisance. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Madison County; the Hon. Martin W. Schaefer, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the August term, 1900.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed March 11, 1901.\nW. F. L. Hadley and Burton & Wheeler, attorneys for appellant.\nTerry & Williamson, attorneys for appellee."
  },
  "file_name": "0068-01",
  "first_page_order": 92,
  "last_page_order": 94
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