North Chicago Street Railroad v. Cheetham

These three cases, involving substantially the same questions, will be considered together, although brought to this court, two upon- appeal and the other by -writ-of error, upon different records.

For convenience’ sake we will refer to the appeal cases as the Cheetham and the Chapin cases, respectively, and to the error case as the Vandehouten case.

All the cases were in equity, and were for relief by way of injunction only, against the appellant in the Cheetham and Chapin cases from laying its tracks and putting up poles and electric wires and operating electric cars in certain portions of…