Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. v. People ex rel. City of Elgin

This was a petition for a writ of mandamus, brought in the Court of Common Pleas of the city of Elgin against the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company, to compel the company to remove a certain stone arch out of Galena street in the city of Elgin which was built by the company .as a part of its road bed when the road was constructed in 1851 or 1852.

The street appears to be 66 feet wide, and the stone arch, upon which the road bed. is constructed, where the road crosses the street, occupies about forty feet of the street, leaving but twenty feet for the use of the public in passing along…