Illinois Central Railroad v. Howard

Appellee owned a lot in the city of Indianapolis, adjoining the present location of the elevated railroad tracks on the south, two squares west of the Union Station, the northwest corner of his lot extending almost to the structure on which appellant’s tracks have been elevated. This lot was thirty-eight feet six inches wide along the west side of Senate avenue, running back the same width 110 feet to a ten foot alley in the rear, which was open up to appellee’s property from the south, but was closed from thence northward. A one story frame building eighty feet nine inches long and…