Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co. v. Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad

On March 15, 1880, tho Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad Company filed its petition in the county court of Cook county, praying to condemn “a strip of land fifty feet in width, running across the following tracts of land in the city of Chicago, described as blocks 34 and 35,” etc., except the right of way of the St. Charles Air Line Railroad. It was alleged that the said fifty feet strip was exclusively on the right of way of the respondent railroad companies, and across their tracks, as more fully described in a plat annexed, and that it desired to make such appropriation without…