People ex rel. Beardsley v. City of Rock Island
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Rock Island county; the Hon. Emery C. Graves, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Cartwright
This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of Rock Island county denying the petition of James M. Beardsley II for a writ of mandamus commanding the appellees, the city of Rock Island and the Davenport, Rock Island and Northwestern Railway Company, to remove a depot building, freight building and freight platform from .Mississippi street, in the city of Rock Island, and to prevent the use of said street for a railroad yard.
The petition alleged that the relator was a citizen and tax-payer of the city of Rock Island; that in the year 1835 the town of Stevenson, which is now the city…
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