Hamilton v. Semet Solvay Co.
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ or Error to the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. CharlBS M. WalkBR, Judge, presiding. This was a bill filed in the circuit court of Cook county by plaintiff in error against the Semet Solvay Company, the Albert Dickinson Company, and various individuals connected with said companies, praying that they be perpetually enjoined from completing a certain canal or slip, and that they be decreed to remove said slip from certain alleged public highways which it is…
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Writ or Error to the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. CharlBS M. WalkBR, Judge, presiding. This was a bill filed in the circuit court of Cook county by plaintiff in error against the Semet Solvay Company, the Albert Dickinson Company, and various individuals connected with said companies, praying that they be perpetually enjoined from completing a certain canal or slip, and that they be decreed to remove said slip from certain alleged public highways which it is claimed to obstruct and parts of which it is alleged to include. That court, after a hearing on the amended bill, answers and…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Carter
Plaintiff in error in his bill alleges that the proposed occupancy of certain streets of the plat in question by the defendants in error would cause him irreparable injury by reducing the value of his land and cutting off the use of said streets so occupied. This allegation was denied in the answers, defendants in error contending that he would not be injured by the construction of said slip, and that the claim of damages was not made in good faith but to force them to purchase his property. No proof was offered by plaintiff in error to sustain his allegations as to such injury except a copy…
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