Public-domain · open source
OpenJurist

125 Ill. App. 482

Snyder v. Baker

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided March 20, 1906

Appellate Court of Illinois · decided 1906-03-20

<p>1. Freehold—when involved. Where a perpetual easement is in issue, a freehold is involved and the Appellate Court is without jurisdiction.</p>

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently March 1909

1 state decisions

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Appeal dismissed · Decided 1906-03-20

View the full empirical analysis of this case →

Mr. Justice Eamsay

¶1delivered the opinion of the court.

¶2This was a proceeding instituted by appellees against appellants, the primary object of which was to compel appellants to remove some obstructions from ditches upon and across their own lands and to restore to appellees the right of the free flow of water through said ditches.

¶3The bill was framed and the cause tried and is argued in this court upon the theory that the appellees had a permanent right to have the waters from their lands flow through ditches over the lands of appellants.

¶4Such a right, if established, is a perpetual easement (a freehold), and this court is without jurisdiction, as the appeal should have been taken to the Supreme Court. Wessels v. Colebank, 174 Ill., 618.

¶5The appeal is dismissed.

¶6Appeal dismissed.

/125/illapp/482 · .json · Public domain