Illinois Central Railroad v. Hecker

Mr. Presiding Justice Dibell

delivered the opinion of the court.

Halsted street, in the city of Chicago, runs north and south and crosses the Chicago river by a bridge. Just south of the bridge are switch tracks of the Chicago & Alton Railroad, then an intervening space, then two passenger tracks of the Chicago & Alton road, then an intervening space, variously estimated by witnesses at from twenty to thirty feet, and which one witness testified he saw measured and that it was nearly twenty-seven feet; then two passenger tracks of the Illinois Central Railroad Company, and still further south,…