Chicago v. Hammond

This is an appeal from a decree of the circuit court of Pulton county, Illinois, finding that appellee had an easement of passageway under a certain culvert or railroad bridge of appellant.

Appellee is and for many years has been the owner of the north-east quarter of section 31, town 5, north, range 1, east, in Pulton county, which is traversed from the south-east corner, in a north-westerly direction, to near the north-west corner, by the right of way of the appellant railroad. The track was constructed there about the year 1869, appellee then being the owner of the tract of land". The right…