Butler v. City of East St. Louis

This is an action on the case brought by John O. Butler and Nicholas McCracken against the city of East St. Louis, to recover damages to their property on account of the construction by the city of a viaduct in and over the street in front of their property, for the use of the traveling public in crossing Cahokia Creek, and also a number of railroad tracks crossing Broadway, a street of the city, in and over which the viaduct was erected.

The ease, in all material respects, is like the case of Herrmann v. The City of East St. Louis, 58 Ill. App. 166. Both cases grew out of the erection of the…