Crane Paper Stock Co. v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.

In 1964 plaintiff, Crane Paper Stock Company, initiated this lawsuit against defendants Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company (hereinafter Company) and the City of Chicago alleging that in connection with a 1959 purchase of property from the Company plaintiff was also granted an exclusive easement over a long narrow strip of land connecting plaintiff’s property and the Company’s main tracks. Plaintiff’s industrial and manufacturing buildings were then receiving from defendant rail service necessary to plaintiff’s successful business operations over spur tracks owned and maintained by the…