Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis R. R. v. West Chicago St. R. R.

Appellate Court of Illinois

Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis R. R. v. West Chicago St. R. R.

54 Ill. App. 273, 1894 Ill. App. LEXIS 93

DecidedMarch 6, 1894

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Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis R. R. v. West Chicago St. R. R., 54 Ill. App. 273, 1894 Ill. App. LEXIS 93 (Ill. Ct. App. 1894).

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Opinion

Mr. Justice Gary

delivered the opinion of the Court.

These two cases are alike with one exception to be noted. Both are bills filed by the appellants to enjoin the appellee from extending the tracks of the street railway across the tracks of the appellants at street crossings, and the only question is whether the appellee should first proceed to condemn, under the eminent domain act.

In the first ease, the fee at the crossing is in the city; in the second, in the appellant, subject to the public easement as a street. We are of opinion that this difference of fact makes no difference in principle, and that the Circuit Court rightly dismissed both bills for want of equity.

It is enough for us to refer to sections 722-723, of Dillon’s Municipal Corporations for the reasons. Condemnation proceedings do not lie for mere damage, if no property is taken. Stetson v. Chicago & Eastern Illinois R. R. Co., 75 Ill. 74. Affirmed.

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