St. Louis, Alton & Terre Haute Railroad Co. v. Belleville City Railway Co.

This was a petition by the Belleville City Railway Company, against the St. Louis, Alton and Terre Haute Railroad Company and the Tudor Iron Works, to condemn a strip of land embracing one-half acre, in the city of East St. Louis, for its right of way. The petitioner claims to be a corporation organized under a private act of the General Assembly, entitled “An act incorporating the Belleville City Railway Company,” approved February 25, 1867. By the second section of the act the petitioner was authorized to construct, maintain and operate a single or double track railroad, with all necessary…