Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co. v. City of Chicago

This was a proceeding by the city of Chicago, for the extension and opening of Chauncey avenue across the rights of way of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company and the Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne and Chicago Railway Company. Chauncey avenue is a street 66 feet in width, running north and south, and when extended, will cross the right of way of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company at the point where it is already crossed by Seventy-sixth street, a street 80 feet in width, and running east and west. The right of way of the last named railway company, the only one…