Highway Commissioners v. Kinahan

The highway commissioners of the town of Lanesville, in Sangamon county, filed their bill of complaint in the circuit court of said county praying for an injunction restraining Lee Metcalf and William P. Kinahan from constructing a grain elevator on a strip of land 58Já feet wide north and south and 150 feet long east and west, adjoining the right of way of the Wabash Railway Company on the south, at the station of Lanesville, alleging that the strip of land was part of a public highway. Metcalf and Kinahan claimed the right to erect the elevator by virtue of a lease from the railway company,…