Legal Opinion
Snow v. Dixon
Illinois Supreme Court
Decided April 5, 1977No. 48694PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Moran
In 1851, by “An Act to incorporate the Illinois Central Railroad company” (1851 Private Laws of Illinois 61, hereinafter, the charter), the Illinois General Assembly authorized construction of a railroad line between Chicago and Cairo with a branch to the Mississippi River via Galena, and granted for that purpose a 200-foot right-of-way and approximately 2.6 million additional acres along that right-of-way. Most of this land derived from Federal land grants of the prior year. The line constructed pursuant to this charter (the charter line) includes 705.5 miles of main line. This, in addition…
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