Rock Island & Eastern Illinois Railway Co. v. Gordon

This is a condemnation proceeding, instituted by the appellant company, as petitioner, against the appellees for the purpose of. condemning a right of way through seventeen acres of land, owned by appellees, situated in the north-eastern part of the city of Rock Island, and known as the Gordon tract. It is located on the bank of the Mississippi river, and fronts the United States arsenal. The strip, sought to be condemned by the appellant, is about thirty feet in width at its western boundary, but widens to about forty-five feet at its eastern boundary, and is about twelve hundred feet long.…