Pittsburgh, Ft. Wayne & Chicago Railway Co. v. Lyons

The Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway Company filed in the circuit court of Cook county its petition, under the Eminent Domain act, for the purpose of acquiring a piece of land amounting to 561 square feet, the property of Larry Lyons and Anne Lyons. Said piece of land is a strip nine feet in width diagonally ofi the south-west end of the east fifty feet of lot 4,' in block 2, of Nichol’s subdivision, in the city of Chicago. This strip abuts on the land of said company lying between Sixty-first and Chestnut streets, and was desired by it for the purpose of widening the right of way…