Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad v. People ex rel. Langhans

On May 16, 1904, the relator filed an amended petition in the circuit court of Vermilion county, as a resident and tax-payer of the city of Danville, against appellant, praying for a writ of mandamus to compel it to stop its trains at thq North street depot, in said city. On the 18th the defendant filed its answer, and on October io the petitioner filed his replication. The cause was tried by the court, without the intervention of a jury, and a judgment was rendered granting the prayer of the petition as to certain specified trains, and for costs of suit. To reverse that judgment this appeal…