Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. v. City of Chicago

The .city of Chicago obtained a judgment against the appellant railroad companies, jointly, in an action of assumpsit which it brought against them in the superior court to recover the amount it had paid to a property .owner to satisfy a judgment for damages to his land, caused by the construction by the city of an approach in Western avenue to a viaduct over Kinzie street, occupied by railroad tracks of the appellants and of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Company. 'By separate ordinances the city had previously granted to the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company, mentioned…