Illinois Central Railway Co. v. Waterloo, Cedar Falls & Northern Railway Co.

The plaintiff’s petition, in its substituted and final form, alleges that, for more than ten years, it has owned and operated a railway 'system extending through several states, and that one of its lines is constructed into and through a part of the city of Cedar Rapids, and across a public way known as North Twelfth Street, over which line it is and long has been doing a large and growing-business as a common carrier, in both state and interstate traffic; that, at and before this action, August 24, 1914, the defendant Waterloo, Cedar Falls & Northern Railway Company was operating an…