People ex rel. Hunt v. Chicago & Alton Railroad
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Madison county; the Hon. Amos Watts, Judge, presiding. A railway company may be compelled to perform its public duties by mandamus. Morawetz on Corp. sec. 487. Mandamus is a proper action to compel a railroad company to deliver grain at a particular warehouse.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Madison county; the Hon. Amos Watts, Judge, presiding. A railway company may be compelled to perform its public duties by mandamus. Morawetz on Corp. sec. 487. Mandamus is a proper action to compel a railroad company to deliver grain at a particular warehouse. Railway Co. v. People, 56 Ill. 365. It will lie to compel a railroad company to so build its track, level and grade the streets, as to render the use of the streets and the crossings of the track convenient for the public. Railroad Co. v. State, 37 Ind. 489. Where a railway company wrongfully took up its…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bailey
This was a petition for a mandamus, brought by the People of the State of Illinois, on the relation of the Attorney General, against the Chicago and Alton Eailroad Cqmpany, to compel said company to establish and maintain a station for the receipt and discharge of passengers and freight, at Upper Alton, in Madison county. The petition alleges, that said company is a railroad corporation organized under the laws of this State, and owning, operating and controlling a line of railway in said county, known as the St. Louis, Jacksonville and Chicago Eailroad, and extending from Godfrey, a station…
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