Hammond, Whiting & East Chicago Railway Co. v. State Highway Commission

Appellant, as plaintiff, sued to enjoin the State Highway Commission, its members and employees and certain contractors working under its authority and direction, from tearing up and destroying plaintiff’s street railway tracks in and along a portion of Indianapolis boulevard, in the city of Hammond, extending southeastwardly, parallel with the shore of Lake Michigan, and not far distant from it, which boulevard the commission was causing to be improved by paving. A restraining order, and then a temporary injunction having been issued, the cause was tried on the merits, when the court made a…