Hickey v. Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad

This is an appeal from the decree of the circuit court of Cook county, sustaining a demurrer to, and dismissing out of court for want of equity, appellant’s bill in equity, brought by them as the owners of real estate in the city of Chicago about to be taken or specially damaged thereby; to restrain by injunction the Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad Company and others from constructing a railroad, to be operated by steam power, over and near said lands within the city of Chicago; the bill showing that said railroad company was incorporated under the general railroad actof 1872, and claims…