Hickey v. Illinois Central Railroad

This action was instituted by four individual taxpayers against the Illinois Central Railroad Company to enjoin it from asserting ownership of certain reclaimed lake-front lands, and seeking a declaratory judgment that fee-simple title thereto is vested in the State of Illinois and the city of Chicago, subject to the railroad’s right to use such lands solely for railroad purposes. The city was given leave to intervene as an additional party plaintiff and adopted the complaint, as finally amended, and the briefs of the original plaintiffs.

Upon defendant’s motion, the trial court struck the…