Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. City of Chicago
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Second District ;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of DuPage county; the Hon. A. H. Frost, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Farmer
This action was brought by appellee against the city of Chicago, appellant, under the act of 1887, to recover three-fourths of the damages alleged to have been sustained by appellee by the destruction of property by mobs in the city of Chicago during a strike of the employees of the Pullman Company and a sympathetic strike in their aid by the American Railway Union, in July, 1894.
The declaration avers that plaintiff is a common carrier of freight and passengers over its line of railroad, which is partly located within the limits of the city of Chicago, and was on the 6th day of July, 1894,…
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- St. Louis, Alton & Terre Haute Railroad v. MontgomeryIllinois Supreme Court · 1866
- Meyer v. BrownMichigan Supreme Court · 1902
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