Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railway Co. v. Road District No. 10

Appellant filed with the Illinois Commerce Commission on March 17, 1932, its petition seeking permission to discontinue a certain grade crossing over its tracks in Johnson county. The petition recites that appellant owns and operates a line of railroad from Chicago to Thebes, in Alexander county, passing through Johnson county; “that a certain public highway crossing your petitioner’s railroad at grade, located on the township line between townships 13 and 14 south, range 2 east, in Johnson county, is no longer used as a public highway and the crossing abandoned, substantially as shown” on a…