Healy v. Joliet & Chicago Railroad Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
error to the supreme court of THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. The facts which make the case are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Miller
This is a writ of error to the Supreme Court of Illinois.
The plaintiffs in error, who were plaintiffs below, brought suit iff the Circuit Court of Cook County of that State, praying for an abatement, or other appropriate relief, against a railroad bridge across Healy Slough, built by the Joliet and Chicago Railroad Company in 1856, and now kept up and maintained by the Chicago and Alton Railroad Company. This bridge is alleged to be an obstruction to the navigation of the slough, and therefore a nuisance, in regard to which plaintiffs suffer special damage, as owners of certain real estate…
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