South Chicago Railroad v. Dix
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the County Court of Cook county; the Hon. Richard Prendergast, Judge, presiding. This was a petition by the South Chicago Railroad Company, under the Statute of Eminent Domain, for the condemnation of a strip of ground thirty feet in width, extending north from Seventy-first street, in Hyde Park, through blocks 12, 7 and 4, crossing Seventieth and Sixty-ninth streets, to a lot of land, part of block 4, occupied by the water-works of the village of Hyde Park and…
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Appeal from the County Court of Cook county; the Hon. Richard Prendergast, Judge, presiding. This was a petition by the South Chicago Railroad Company, under the Statute of Eminent Domain, for the condemnation of a strip of ground thirty feet in width, extending north from Seventy-first street, in Hyde Park, through blocks 12, 7 and 4, crossing Seventieth and Sixty-ninth streets, to a lot of land, part of block 4, occupied by the water-works of the village of Hyde Park and town of Lake,—a distance of 1651 feet. The petition alleges the petitioner to be a corporation organized under the laws…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Sheldon
The South Chicago Railroad Company was incorporated under the general act for the incorporation of railroad companies, in force March 1, 1872, and the amendment thereto, of May 11, 1877. The power to condemn property for the purpose of switches, turn-outs and side-tracks, is conferred, in express terms, by section 17 of the act. By the act, the persons incorporating a company are to name the places from and to which -it is intended to construct the proposed railway, but no limitation is laid down as to the places where switches, turn-outs, or side-tracks are to be constructed. When it is…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Matter of Boston and Albany R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1873
- In Matter of N.Y.C. and H.R.R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1879
- Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R. R. v. Town of LakeIllinois Supreme Court · 1874
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- Brown v. Calumet River Railway Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1888
- South Park Commissioners v. S. Karpen & Bros.Illinois Supreme Court · 1910
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