Johnson v. Freeport & Mississippi River Railway Co.

This is a proceeding commenced by petition, by the Free-port and Mississippi Bailroad Company, to condemn, under the Eminent Domain act, the whole of lots 10, 11 and 12, in block 5, on the east side of the Galena river, in the city of Galena, that remains after taking therefrom a strip of land ten feet in width off the east end thereof, conveyed to the Illinois Central Bailroad Company, and after taking therefrom another strip of- ground off the west end thereof twenty-two feet wide, on Bouthillier street, and gradually narrowing southwardly to a width of ten feet on the southerly boundary…