Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. City of Chicago
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action in case. Appeal from the Circuit Court of DuPage county; the Hon. Abthtje H. Feost, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Thompson
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is an action in case begun the 16th day of May, 1895, in the Circuit Court of Cook county, Illinois, by the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company against the city of Chicago to recover three fourths of the damages sustained by it on account of the destruction of property of which “the plaintiff was possessed as of its own property,” during riots there in July, 1894.
The declaration avers that the plaintiff is a corporation of the state of Illinois and other states; that the defendant is a municipal…
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