Legal Opinion

Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad v. City of Chicago

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided March 31, 1894PublishedCited by 37 opinions

Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Frank Baker, Judge, presiding.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Magruder

This is a condemnation proceeding, instituted in pursuance ■of an ordinance passed by the common council of the city of Chicago for the purpose of opening and widening Bockwell Street from West 18th Street to West 19th Street across the tracks and right of way of the appellant company.

The questions, raised by the assignments of error and growing out of the admission and exclusion of testimony and the giving and refusal of instructions by the court below, are the same questions which have been passed upon in the following cases recently decided by this Court: I. C. R. R. Co. v. City of…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. Boom Co. v. PattersonSupreme Court of the United States · 1879
  2. The Albany Northern Railroad Company v. . BrownellNew York Court of Appeals · 1862
  3. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. v. City of ChicagoIllinois Supreme Court · 1892
  4. King v. Minneapolis Union Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1884
  5. Illinois Central Railroad v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1892

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3Cited by37 opinions

  1. State ex rel. City of Minneapolis v. St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1906
  2. Welton v. Iowa State Highway CommissionSupreme Court of Iowa · 1930
  3. Chicago & Erie Railroad v. LuddingtonIndiana Supreme Court · 1910
  4. St. Louis & Cairo Railroad v. Postal Telegraph Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1898
  5. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Postal Telegraph-Cable Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1904

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