Kirchman v. West & South Towns Street Railway Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Bill to Enjoin the Building of a Street Railway.—-Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Edmund W. Burke, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1895.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Shepard
delivered the opinion of the Court.
The bills that were filed in these two causes in the Circuit Court, present substantially the same questions upon the appeals from the orders there entered sustaining general demurrers and dismissing the bills for want of equity, and for convenience’ sake we will consider both cases together, as appears to have been done below.
Both bills attack the same ordinance of the city of Chicago upon substantially the same grounds, and seek relief by ivay of injunction against the appellees, from constructing their raihvays in and along…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Hunt v. Chicago Horse & Dummy Railway Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1887
- Metropolitan City Railway Co. v. City of ChicagoIllinois Supreme Court · 1880
- Tibbetts v. West & South Towns Street Railway Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1894
- Tibbetts v. West & South Town Street Railway Co.Appellate Court of Illinois · 1894
3Cited by1 opinion
- Stevenson v. Board of County CommissionersSupreme Court of Kansas · 1916