Law v. Sanitary District

This is a petition, filed by the defendant in error, the Sanitary District of Chicago, on May 7,1900, against the plaintiffs in error, Eobert H. Law, the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company, and Elizabeth A. Ware, and other parties not here as plaintiffs in error, for the purpose of condemning certain property, belonging to the plaintiffs in error, in pursuance of an ordinance passed by the petitioner, the Sanitary District of Chicago, on April 25, 1900, laying out and establishing a plan for the deepening, widening and improving of the Chicago river from a point on the west…