Illinois Central Railroad v. City of Chicago
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Henry V. Freeman, Judge, presiding. This is a bill in equity filed by the Illinois Central Eailroad Company against the city of Chicago, praying for an injunction restraining the city from interfering with or preventing the company from filling in certain land covered by the shallow waters of Lake Michigan, lying between Twenty-fifth and Twenty-seventh streets, produced, for the purpose of constructing an engine house…
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Henry V. Freeman, Judge, presiding. This is a bill in equity filed by the Illinois Central Eailroad Company against the city of Chicago, praying for an injunction restraining the city from interfering with or preventing the company from filling in certain land covered by the shallow waters of Lake Michigan, lying between Twenty-fifth and Twenty-seventh streets, produced, for the purpose of constructing an engine house thereon. The bill is quite voluminous, but it will only be necessary to se.t out those provisions which have a direct…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Craig
On the application for an injunction the facts set forth in the bill were admitted to be true, and the question presented by this record is, admitting the facts set out in the bill to be true, whether the court erred in denying the motion for an injunction and in dismissing the bill.
It is contended in the argument of counsel for appellant that the Illinois Central Railroad Company has the right and power, under its charter, to enter upon, take possession of and use land covered by the shallow waters of Lake Michigan for the purpose of constructing thereon an engine house necessary for the…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Illinois Central Railroad v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
- People ex rel. Moloney v. KirkIllinois Supreme Court · 1896
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- Martin v. SwiftIllinois Supreme Court · 1887
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