Chicago & Milwaukee Electric Railroad v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the County Court of Lake county; the Hon. D. L. Jones, Judge, presiding. On September 10, 1903, the Chicago and Milwaukee Electric Railroad Company, the appellant, filed a petition in the county court of Lake county to condemn two tracts of land, one lying in the city of Fort Sheridan and the other in the village of North Chicago, both in Lake county.
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Appeal from the County Court of Lake county; the Hon. D. L. Jones, Judge, presiding. On September 10, 1903, the Chicago and Milwaukee Electric Railroad Company, the appellant, filed a petition in the county court of Lake county to condemn two tracts of land, one lying in the city of Fort Sheridan and the other in the village of North Chicago, both in Lake county. Both tracts belong to the appellee, Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company, hereinafter referred to as the Northwestern company, which appeared and filed a traverse to the petition, denying the right or authority of the petitioner…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scott
• Appellant moves to strike the cross-errors from the files, on the ground that they relate to a judgment entirely separate and distinct from the judgment brought here by appeal. Petitioner sought condemnation of two separate tracts of real estate. Respondents interposed a motion to dismiss the petition as to both. This motion was sustained as to one parcel, and as to that parcel the judgment dismissing is the final judgment from which petitioner appealed. The motion was overruled as to the other tract, and the cause proceeded to a judgment fixing the amount of damages, and" appellees, by…
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- Illinois Central Railroad v. Chicago, Burlington & Northern RailroadIllinois Supreme Court · 1887
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