People Ex Rel. City of Chicago v. Chicago City Railway Co.

This appeal is from the decision of the circuit court of Cook county dismissing the petition of the city of Chicago in which it asked that a writ of mandamus issue directing the Chicago City Railway Company to remove its tracks and trolley poles from their existing location in Twenty-second street between Archer avenue and Michigan avenue and re-locate them in the same street to conform to the center line of said street as and when widened.

Twenty-second street is an east and west street in the city of Chicago, 66 feet in width, with a paved roadway of 38 feet. As an aid to the lake front…