Legal Opinion

City of Chicago v. Lonergan

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided April 16, 1902PublishedCited by 15 opinions

Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Murray F. Tuley, Judge, presiding.

1Per curiam

The Appellate Court for the First District affirmed a judgment recovered by appellee, against appellant, in the circuit court of Cook county, in a suit for damages to appellee’s property by changing and lowering the grade of Forty-seventh street, in the city of Chicago, and impairing the means of access to the property from the street.

The plaintiff owns premises on the north-west corner of Armour avenue and Forty-seventh street, in front of which the grade was changed by the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern and Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad companies, under an ordinance of…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Rigney v. City of ChicagoIllinois Supreme Court · 1881
  2. Keegan v. KinnareIllinois Supreme Court · 1887
  3. Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railway Co. v. StickneyIllinois Supreme Court · 1894

3Cited by15 opinions

  1. Grover Irrigation & Land Co. v. Lovella Ditch, Reservoir & Irrigation Co.Wyoming Supreme Court · 1913
  2. Department of Public Works & Buildings v. DivitIllinois Supreme Court · 1962
  3. State Ex Rel. State Highway Commission v. PopeMissouri Court of Appeals · 1934
  4. Harris v. Piggly Wiggly Stores, Inc.Appellate Court of Illinois · 1925
  5. Hartshorn v. Illinois Valley Railway Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1905

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