State ex rel. City of Lincoln v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.

In March, 1907, the mayor and council of the city of Lincoln duly enacted and approved an ordinance decreeing the necessity of a viaduct and approaches thereto “over and across the tracks of certain railway companies in and over P street of the city of Lincoln,” and requiring the defendant company to construct a viaduct over and across its railway tracks at P street. At the general city election of that year the plan was approved and the mayor and council empowered to require its construction. In August of the following year the mayor and council duly passed and approved an ordinance for that…