Legal Opinion
Limits Industrial Railroad v. American Spiral Pipe Works
Illinois Supreme Court
Decided April 23, 1926No. 16349. Reversed and remandedPublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Dunn
The Limits Industrial Railroad Company was incorporated on December 4, 1922, with a capital stock of $10,000, for the purpose of constructing a railroad from a point in the right of way of the Baltimore and Ohio Chicago Terminal Railroad Company about 730 feet to Forty-seventh avenue. It filed a petition in the superior court of Cook county for the condemnation1 for its right of way of a strip of land 17 feet wide, being 8.5 feet on each side of a line commencing at a point in the west line of the Baltimore and Ohio Chicago Terminal railroad 4.98 feet west of the center line of the main track…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Railroad Co. v. Iron-WorksWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1888
- Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad v. WiltseIllinois Supreme Court · 1886
- Sanitary District v. CorneauIllinois Supreme Court · 1912
- Pere Marquette Railroad v. United States Gypsum Co.Michigan Supreme Court · 1908
- Litchfield & Madison Railway Co. v. Alton & Southern RailroadIllinois Supreme Court · 1922
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3Cited by23 opinions
- Zurn v. City of ChicagoIllinois Supreme Court · 1945
- Southwestern Illinois Development Authority v. National City Environmental, L.L.C.Illinois Supreme Court · 2002
- Department of Public Works & Buildings v. FarinaIllinois Supreme Court · 1963
- People Ex Rel. Tuohy v. City of ChicagoIllinois Supreme Court · 1946
- In Re Chicago & NW Ry. Co.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1942
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