Kane v. City of Chicago

This is an action at law commenced in the superior court of Cook county for the recovery of damages alleged to have been sustained by appellants as owners of real estate situated at the northwest corner of Wabash and Austin avenues, in Chicago, by reason of the construction by the city of a viaduct or bridge along Wabash avenue and across Austin avenue and the alley immediately adjoining appellants' property on the north. The property of appellants is a four-story-and-basement brick building, equipped and used as a cold-storage warehouse, with a frontage of 100 feet on Wabash avenue on the…