C. Hacker Co. v. City of Joliet

C. Hacker Company, the appellant, owned for many years prior to 1911 a manufacturing plant in the City of Joliet fronting westerly and abutting eighty feet on Collins street, and extending easterly along the right of way of the Michigan Central Railroad Company on the south about three hundred feet. It acquired its title after the purchase and occupancy by the railroad company of its adjacent right of way, and from the same source. In 1911 the railroad company, in elevating its tracks pursuant to an ordinance of the City of Joliet requiring such elevation,' permanently closed Collins street…