{
  "id": 2833615,
  "name": "Elizabeth Guibert v. The State of Illinois",
  "name_abbreviation": "Guibert v. State",
  "decision_date": "1890-12-12",
  "docket_number": "",
  "first_page": "87",
  "last_page": "87",
  "citations": [
    {
      "type": "official",
      "cite": "1 Ill. Ct. Cl. 87"
    }
  ],
  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. Ct. Cl.",
    "id": 8793,
    "name": "Illinois Court of Claims"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
  },
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  "last_updated": "2023-07-14T17:06:07.645652+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Elizabeth Guibert v. The State of Illinois."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "The claimant filed her petition on the 20th day of October, 1879, setting forth that by authority of the State of Illinois a dam was constructed across the Illinois river at or near Copperas Creek; that the erection of said dam caused the water in the river opposite claimant\u2019s land to back up over her land and thereby to render it almost worthless, and that said lands will remain water soaked and almost worthless forever. The damage claimed is $880.\nTo this petition the statute of limitations and the general issue is interposed as a defense; and upon the petition, pleas, depositions and report of the surveyor, this cause is heard.\nThe evidence discloses the fact that on one tract of claimant\u2019s lands there is a creek running entirely through the tract; the head of the creek is found to be fifteen feet above the river at low water mark. The banks of this creek are low, and from this creek and not from the river the water spreads out over the claimant\u2019s land. The land is found by actual measurement to be from seventeen to twenty feet above old low water mark. We have no doubt but what these lands are becoming more thoroughly water soaked than they were in former years. Undoubtedly this condition would have existed had the dam never been erected. At all events the claimant\u2019s lands are found to be from ten to fourteen feet above that point where the dam ceases to have any effect on the river; and in the judgment of the Commission the claimant\u2019s lands are not damaged by the construction of the dam, and have therefore rejected this claim.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": null
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "Elizabeth Guibert v. The State of Illinois.\nOpinion filed December 12, 1890.\nWaters\u2014damages caused by construction of dam. The court reviews evidence and finds that claimant\u2019s lands are not damaged by construction of dam in Illinois river by the State of Illinois."
  },
  "file_name": "0087-01",
  "first_page_order": 119,
  "last_page_order": 119
}