Peoria Gas Light & Coke Co. v. Peoria Terminal Railway Co.

delivered the opinion of the .Court:

This was a proceeding under the Eminent Domain Law, brought by the Peoria Terminal Railway Company against the Peoria Gas Light and Coke Company, to condemn for right of way, a portion of the premises owned and occupied by the defendant with its buildings and other improvements and machinery, constituting its gas works. The premises of the defendant consist of one block of ground, bordering upon the Illinois River, and being something over 400 feet in length along the river, and about 300 feet in width, and containing about three acres. The land sought to…