Legal Opinion
C-B Realty & Trading Corp. v. Chicago & North Western Railway Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided June 26, 1997No. 1-96-1344PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PRESIDING JUSTICE WOLFSON
delivered the opinion of the court:
This case possesses a Dickensian quality. It concerns a contract entered into in 1908 and a lawsuit filed in 1974. Unfortunately, this decision probably will not put an end to the dispute.
We are called on to decide what the parties to the contract meant when they agreed to a "watertight” floor for a railroad bridge (they meant watertight) and we must decide a dispute over who is to pay real estate taxes for the land under the bridge (the railroad does).
FACTS
The plaintiffs in this case are C-B Realty and Trading Corporatian, Harris…
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