Calumet River Railway Co. v. Moore
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the County Court of Cook county; the Hon. Elbert H. Gary, Judge, presiding. This was a proceeding brought in the Cook county court, ".by the Calumet River Railway Company, to condemn a right ■of way one hundred feet wide, across certain lots in the division of the north one hundred and ten acres of the north-east fractional quarter of section 19, township 37 north, of range 15 •east, in Cook county.
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Appeal from the County Court of Cook county; the Hon. Elbert H. Gary, Judge, presiding. This was a proceeding brought in the Cook county court, ".by the Calumet River Railway Company, to condemn a right ■of way one hundred feet wide, across certain lots in the division of the north one hundred and ten acres of the north-east fractional quarter of section 19, township 37 north, of range 15 •east, in Cook county. The particular lots involved in this ■appeal were lot 2, containing five acres, and owned by Clara Moore, lot 3, containing eighteen acres, and owned by John Leffler, and lot 4,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shope
The three .cases of Calumet River Railway Co. v. Clara Moore et al., Same v. John Leffler, and Same v. Jeannette Freeman, involving the condemnation of the right of way of appellant company’s railway across adjoining tracts of land, and presenting substantially the same questions, will be considered together. An objection common to each case is, that the damages awarded were excessive, and the judgments severally rendered should be reversed.
As is not unusual in cases of like character, there was wide-divergence in the evidence of the witnesses, both as to the value of the land taken and as to…
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