fee at the LaSalle county bar except that offered by the plaintiff, and that tended to support the action of the court in the amount taxed. As the case must go back for another trial we have not determined whether the amount allowed sourselfles is so large as to require our disapproval, but we think it not improper to say that we would have been better satisfied with the allowance for attorney's fees if the amount had been materially less. For the errors indicated the judgment is reversed and the cause remanded. Reversed and remanded. HENRY VETTE, Appellee, vs. THE SANITARY DISTRICT OF Opinion filed October 28, 1913-Rehearing denied Dec. 4, 1913. 1. PLEADING when a formal plea of Statute of Limitations is proper. If an action is brought to recover damages for a permanent injury to real estate, a formal plea that the cause of action did not accrue within five years next preceding the commencement of suit may be interposed, and demurrer will not lie to such plea. 2. SAME-when a formal plea of Statute of Limitations is not sufficient. If an action is brought to recover damages for a temporary injury to real estate or for a continuing trespass alleged to have occurred within five years, a formal plea of the five year Statute of Limitations is not sufficient, but the plea should allege special facts to show wherein the suit is barred, as, for example, facts which, if proven, will show that the injury complained of is permanent, and not, as alleged in the declaration, temporary. 3. SAME whether suit is for permanent or temporary injury is determined by declaration. Where a formal plea of the five year Statute of Limitations is interposed to a declaration in a suit for damages for an injury to real estate, a demurrer to such plea raises a question of law whether the action is for permanent or temporary injury, and to determine such question it is necessary to examine the declaration. 4. SAME when declaration is for damages for permanent injury to land. If it appears from the declaration in an action against th e Sanitary District of Chicago that the channel of the district is permanent structure, that ever since the channel was opened the a plaintiff has been deprived of the use of the land for agricultural purposes, and that the effect of the opening of the channel was to destroy the timber on the lands and the use of the lands as farm lands, then the action is one for permanent injury accruing at the time the channel was opened, and a formal plea of the five year Statute of Limitations is not open to demurrer. (Jones v. Sanitary District, 252 Ill. 591, explained.) 5. Damages when all damages must be recovered in one suit. If the continuance and operation of a permanent structure are not necessarily injurious to land but may or may not be so, then only the injury sustained prior to the commencement of the action can be compensated in that suit; but where the continuance and operation of a permanent structure are necessarily injurious, then damages for all injury sustained must be recovered in one action. 6. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW-attorney's fee provision of Sanitary District act is not unconstitutional. The attorney's fee provision of section 19 of the Sanitary District act is not unconstitutional. (Gentleman v. Sanitary District, ante, p. 317, followed.) APPEAL from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. DENIS E. SULLIVAN, Judge, presiding. JOHN C. WILLIAMS, and FRANK J. QUINN, (EDMUND D. ADCOCK, Ross C. HALL, and WALTER E. BEEBE, of counsel,) for appellant. WARREN PEASE, and CHARLES P. MOLTHROP, for appellee. Mr. CHIEF JUSTICE COOKE delivered the opinion of the court: On February 9, 1911, Henry Vette, appellee, brought an action on the case in the superior court of Cook county against the Sanitary District of Chicago to recover damages to his farm lands, alleged to have been occasioned by waters from the canal constructed by the sanitary district. The declaration as originally filed consisted of two counts. The first count was dismissed and the trial proceeded upon the second count, which, after setting up the incorporation of the sanitary district and the construction and completion of 260 - 28 the drainage canal for the purpose of turning the waters of the Chicago river, carrying the sewage from the sanitary district, from Lake Michigan into the Illinois river, alleges that at all times during the five years next preceding the beginning of this suit appellee was the owner in fee simple of certain described real estate; that upon the lands were oak, ash, elm and other trees native to the bottoms of the Illinois river; that the lands were of extreme richness and capable of bearing large farm crops; that the farm lands are adjacent to the Illinois river and were subject to excessive overflow from 'the Illinois river if any waters beyond the usual and natural flowage of the river should be cast into the stream; that while said lands were at all times subject to overflow from said river from natural causes, such overflow was of a temporary nature and did not interfere with the growth or health of the timber upon appellee's lands or with the use of the pasture land for pasturage or the use of the farm lands for farming purposes; that the said lands "were so situated that any waters artificially caused to flow into the Illinois river would cause an overflow which would prevent their use as farm lands and would destroy the crops thereon and any additional flowage would injure and destroy said timber;" that on January 17, 1900, appellant, the Sanitary District of Chicago, connected its canal with the Chicago river, and by means thereof has ever since January 17, 1900, caused the waters of the Chicago river and vast quantities of water from Lake Michigan to flow through said canal into the Desplaines river and from thence into the Illinois river; that after casting the waters of the canal into the Desplaines river at Lockport appellant made no further provision for caring for said. waters, and did not deepen or alter the beds of the Desplaines and Illinois rivers or in any way provide any protection for the Illinois river bottom lands against the increased waters of the Illinois river, but has, by means of said canal, from day to day from January 17, 1900, until the beginning of this suit, cast approximately 300,000 cubic feet of water each minute into the Desplaines river in such manner that said waters flowed into the Illinois river. The declaration then sets up section 19 of the act under which the sanitary district was incorporated, which provides that every district organized under the provisions of that act shall be liable for all damage to real estate which shall be overflowed or otherwise damaged by reason of the construction, enlargement or use of any channel, ditch, drain, outlet or other improvement, and which also provides for the recovery of attorneys' fees, under certain conditions, in case an action is brought and judgment for damages recovered against the district, and alleges that by reason of the provisions of said act appellant became liable to appellee for all damages to his real estate caused by the use of said canal during the five years immediately preceding the commencement of this suit. It is further alleged that because of the acts of appellant appellee's lands have become at times overflowed with the waters from the Illinois river, and that the waters artificially deposited in the Illinois river by appellant have, in connection with natural causes and the natural precipitation of the watershed of the Illinois river and the natural flowage of said river, caused the lands of appellee to become greatly overflowed with water in the spring time and have caused such waters to stand over the lands of appellee late into the summer of each year since the year 1900, so that during the five years next preceding the commencement of this suit said lands have been flooded and said floods have remained over appellee's lands late in the summer. The declaration then alleges that by reason of the acts of appellant and the consequent floods the timber upon appellee's lands has been greatly injured and much of it has died during the five years last past; that the pasturage upon his lands during the last five years has become injured and destroyed and he has been prevented from enjoying the same; that he has lost divers crops growing upon his lands, and that he has been prevented from using the lands for farming purposes during the period of five years. The damages sought to be recovered herein are for these alleged injuries. To the declaration appellant filed the general issue, a plea denying appellee's title to the lands, and a plea setting up the five years Statute of Limitations. Appellee joined issue upon the general issue and upon the plea denying title but demurred to the plea. of the Statute of Limitations. The demurrer was sustained and appellant stood by the plea. A trial resulted in a verdict in favor of appellee for $6520. The court fixed appellee's attorneys' fees at $1200, and rendered judgment for $6520 and costs of suit. From that judgment the sanitary district has prosecuted this appeal. The plea of the Statute of Limitations was merely the formal plea. It set up no special facts in bar of the action, but simply stated that the cause of action did not accrue within five years next before the commencement of the suit. Appellant first contends that the court erred in sustaining the demurrer to this plea because it was in proper form and no question of law was raised except as to the sufficiency of the plea itself. In an action brought to recover damages for a permanent injury to real estate the formal plea of the Statute of Limitations may be interposed and a demurrer will not lie. On the other hand, if, as appellee contends is the case here, a suit is brought to recover damages for a temporary injury to real estate or for a continuing trespass alleged to have occurred within five years, then, if the Statute of Limitations is pleaded, the mere formal plea is not sufficient but special facts must be set up to show wherein the suit is barred, as, for instance, facts which, if proven, would show that the injury for which recovery is sought was a permanent injury, and not, as the declaration alleged, a temporary one. A formal plea of the Statute of Limitations alleging no more than the plea in this case alleges, if filed to a suit to recover dam |