Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad v. Dickinson

Appellant filed its petition in the county court of Cook county for the condemnation of certain property required for the uses of its railroad, and the venue of the cause was, by agreement, changed to the Superior Court of said county. Among the tracts described in the petition was the lot of appellee on the south side of Warren avenue, having a frontage of forty-four feet upon said avenue and running back one hundred and twenty-two feet to an alley. Appellant’s right of way extends from the front of the lot along the west side, a distance of seventy-eight feet, without taking any part of the…