Langabier v. Fairbury, Pontiac & Northwestern R. R. Co.

This was a bill in chancery, in the Livingston circuit court, praying for a writ of injunction to. restrain the Fairburv, Pontiac and Northwestern Eailway Company from taking possession of one of the principal streets (Walnut) in the incorporated town of Fairbury, for the purpose of grading, tieing and ironing the same for the track of their railroad. •

The bill is filed by a large property owner on the street to be taken by the railway, and it allegas that the company, immediately after twelve o’clock of the night of Saturday, with a large force of men, had taken violent' possession of thé…