Illinois Central Railroad v. City of Chicago
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Theodore Brentano, Judge, presiding. This proceeding was instituted by the city of Chicago, in the Superior Court of Cook county, for the ascertainment of the compensation and damages due to the Illinois Central Railroad Company for land taken or damaged in opening and extending Eighty-second street and Ninetieth street across its railroad tracks and right of way.
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Theodore Brentano, Judge, presiding. This proceeding was instituted by the city of Chicago, in the Superior Court of Cook county, for the ascertainment of the compensation and damages due to the Illinois Central Railroad Company for land taken or damaged in opening and extending Eighty-second street and Ninetieth street across its railroad tracks and right of way. The company entered its motion to dismiss the proceeding, on the ground that the parts of the right of way proposed to be condemned are parts of the continuous line of its…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Baker
The case of Illinois Central Railroad Co. v. City of Chicago, 141 Ill. 586, in which the same extension of these streets was involved, fully sustains the ruling of the court below in denying the motion of appellant to dismiss the proceeding. In that case, among other things, it was said: “So far as the extension of Eighty-second and Ninetieth streets is concerned, the language of paragraph 89 is broad enough to authorize the extension across the railroad ‘yard’ as well as across the tracks or right of way.” And since the motion to dismiss was unadvisedly filed, it necessarily follows that all…
2Cases cited10 opinions
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- Dupuis v. Chicago & North Wisconsin Railway Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1885
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