Goddard v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Second District; — heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Stephenson county; the Hon. James S. Baume, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Cartwright
The appellants, Alpheus P. Goddard and Alpheus J. Goddard, filed their bill in the circuit court of Stephenson county against the appellee, the Chicago and Northwestern Bailway Company, alleging that complainants were engaged in constructing a street railway in the city of Freeport and in public highways in said county outside of said city; that the board of supervisors of said county granted to them the right to construct, operate and maintain lines of street railway upon certain highways not within any incorporated city, town or village, among which was a highway called “Gund avenue,” in…
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