Legal Opinion

Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad v. Illinois Central Railroad

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided January 22, 1885PublishedCited by 17 opinions

Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. M. F. Tuley, Judge, presiding.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sheldon

This was a bill in equity, brought by the Illinois Central Railroad Company, the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company, and the Michigan Central Railroad Company, against the Chicago, and Western Indiana Railroad Company and. the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company, praying for an injunction to restrain the Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad Company from proceeding with a petition which it had theretofore filed in the county court of Cook county, to condemn a right of way over and across the St. Charles Air Line railroad, twenty feet in width. Upon hearing, on answer and…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Smith v. Chicago & Western Indiana RailroadIllinois Supreme Court · 1882
  2. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co. v. Chicago & Western Indiana RailroadIllinois Supreme Court · 1881
  3. Kip v. . New York and Harlem R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1876
  4. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad v. WilsonIllinois Supreme Court · 1855
  5. New York, Housatonic & Northern Railroad v. Boston, Hartford & Erie RailroadSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1869

3Cited by17 opinions

  1. State Ex Rel. Polson Logging Co. v. Superior CourtWashington Supreme Court · 1941
  2. State ex rel. Trimble v. Superior CourtWashington Supreme Court · 1903
  3. Detroit & Toledo Shore Line Railroad v. CampbellMichigan Supreme Court · 1905
  4. Gardner v. Georgia Railroad & Banking Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1903
  5. Tennessee Gas Transmission Co. v. Violet Trapping Co.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 1967

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