Chicago Terminal Transfer Railroad v. Preucil

The appellee, a corporation organized under the laws of this State and authorized to construct, maintain and operate a railroad from the south-west corner of Harrison street and Fifth avenue, in Chicago, southerly, westerly and south-westerly through the city of LaSalle to the Mississippi river, filed in the superior court of Cook county a petition under the Eminent Domain act to ascertain the compensation to be paid for the south sixteen feet of lot 32, in block 16, in Sampson & Greene’s addition to Chicago, and appellant’s leasehold interest therein, to be appropriated and used for the…