City of East St. Louis v. Illinois Central Railroad

This is a proceeding under the Local Improvement act of 1897 to pave Church avenue, in the city of East St. Louis, with granite blocks, a distance of 720 feet, beginning at Front street and running west. The evidence shows that all the property immediately adjoining Church avenue on the south and- in front of which the proposed pavement is to be placed is owned by the Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company, which also owns 150 feet frontage immediately adjoining the proposed improvement on the north side of Church avenue, and that the balance of the frontage on the north side of Church avenue,—that…