People ex rel. City of Chicago v. West Chicago Street Railroad
Appellate Court of Illinois
Mandamus proceeding. Error to the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Charles G. Neely, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Stein
delivered the opinion of the court.
The city of Chicago filed in the Circuit Court of this county its petition for a writ of mandamus directed to the West Chicago Street Railroad Company, defendant in error, commanding it to lower at its own cost and expense its - tunnel under the south branch of the Chicago river near Van Burén street, so as to provide for a clear depth of at least twenty-one feet of water above said tunnel at all times between the existing dockwalls, or to remove said tunnel, so that the same should cease to be an obstruction to the free navigation…
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- Bridge Co. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1882
- United States v. Bellingham Bay Boom Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1900
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