People ex rel. Spruance v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.

This was a proceeding by mandamus, on the part of appellants, in the Superior Court of Chicago, against appellees. The object of the proceeding was, to compel the railroad company to permit the junction of a railway track from the grain elevator of appellants, with the main track of appellee’s road, and when thus connected, to compel the company to deliver at the warehouse all grain shipped to it, for storage. The writ avers, that the warehouse was erected by Maher and ¡New-berry in the year 1862, on land then, and now, owned by Maher; that the elevator is a public warehouse for the storage…