United States v. Illinois Central Railroad
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FKOM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE .NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS. This was an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court, sustaining a demurrer on the part of the Illinois Central and the Michigan Central Railroad, to an information filed by the United States, and dismissing the information as to all the appellees.
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APPEAL FKOM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE .NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS. This was an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court, sustaining a demurrer on the part of the Illinois Central and the Michigan Central Railroad, to an information filed by the United States, and dismissing the information as to all the appellees. The information sought to restrain the appellees from diverting the public ground marked on the plat of the Fort Dearborn addition to the city of Chicago from the easements to which it was dedicated. On this branch of the case the information proceeded upon…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
This is an appeal on the part of the United States from a decree of the Circuit Court sustaining a demurrer to an information or bill in equity, in which they were complainants and the Illinois Central and other railroad companies were defendants. The information charges that encroachments are made or threatened upon property of the United States, and the object of the information, so far as contended on the present appeal, is to prevent their continuance in the future, as to one particular parcel of property and to preserve it open to the uses for which it was dedicated bjr the United…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Illinois Central Railroad v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
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