Aledo Terminal Railway Co. v. Butler
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the County Court of Mercer county; the Hon. Henry E. Burgess, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Chiee Justice VickERS
delivered the opinion of the court:
The Aledo Terminal Railway Company filed a petition in the county court of Mercer county to condemn a strip of land across the south-east quarter of section 15, township 14, range 3, in Mercer county, 66 feet wide and 2659 feet long, for a right of way for a railroad, making WilHam M. Butler and Georgia A. Butler, as owners, defendants to said petition. A cross-petition was filed by the defendants, alleging that they were the owners of the entire quarter section of land described in the petition and of eighty-three acres adjoining…
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