Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1908 — KANKAKEE SALOONIST SUES THE MONON [ARTICLE]

KANKAKEE SALOONIST SUES THE MONON

Ben Fogli, of Water Valley, Wants $15,000 Because of Alleged Damage to His Club House.

When a fellow gets in « hard row of stumps he generally sues a railroad corporation. Of’course, this may not have prompted Ben Fogli, the Water Valley saloonfet and club house proprietor, but he has brought action in county against the Monon railroad company for 115,000, the complaint charging that the Monon railroad had filled in along its tracks and thus diverted the regular channel of the Kankakee and caused an overflow of water with the folowing alleged damages: Damage to hotel 15,000 Damage to furniture 1,000 Damage to icehouse 300 Melting of Ice —l _ 300 Wall*, floors and ceilings Damage to boat house..—2oo Loos of business 5,000 In all Mr. McAleer, the attorney tor Mr. Fogli, thinks that he has been

damaged to an extent of >15,000 and he is suing for that amount in the Lake Superior court. The complaint alleges that the plaintiff is the owner of several acres of land which are drained by ah ancient natural water course which has drained the land from time immemorial. It states that the railroad built its roadbed across this course and then gradually filled in the space around the bridge which spanned the course. Last spring when the water was high it rose above Mr. Fogll’s buildings and damaged them all considerably, wherefore Mr. Fogli, through his attorney, Mr. McAleer, is asking for >15,000 damages. The property is in NdVtMi Jfounty, ilk Thayer, but right on the river bank road and about a half mile from ths Thayer railroad station.