Chicago, Ottawa & Peoria Railway Co. v. Rausch

On June 4, .1909, the appellee, the Chicago, Ottawa and Peoria Railway Company, a corporation organized under the general Railroad law of this State and authorized to construct a railroad from the village of Crotty, in LaSalle county, to and through the city of Morris, in Grundy county, presented its petition to a judge of the circuit court of Grundy county, praying that the compensation 'to be paid for two tracts of land in the city of Morris upon which it had located its road,—one owned by Jacob W.. Rausch and Colette Rausch, his wife, as tenants in common, and the other owned by the said…