Peoria, Bloomington & Champaign Traction Co. v. Vance

Appellant filed its petition to condemn a strip of land about eighty-two and one-half feet wide off of the south side of appellees’ farm for a right of way upon which to construct and operate an interurban electric railroad. The judgment rendered upon the first trial was reversed upon appeal. In the opinion then rendered (225 Ill. 270,) will be found a statement of the case and description of the premises. Upon the case being re-instated in the county court, James Burton, Sr., and James Burton, Jr., who were tenants of the premises under a three-year lease, were made parties defendant. They…