County of Henderson v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad

The county of Henderson and the town of Biggsville, in that county, filed a petition with the Illinois Commerce Commission for an order requiring the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company to repair and maintain a bridge over a creek crossed by a public highway running north and south on the section line between sections 17 and 18. The commission, after a hearing, entered an order finding that the subject matter of the petition was one over which the commission had no jurisdiction, because the bridge was entirely outside of the railroad company’s right of way, and for that reason the…