Illinois Supreme Court November 17, 1884 (Johnson v. Freeport & Mississippi River Railway Co.)

Mr. Chief Justice Soholfield

delivered the opinion of the Court:

This is a proceeding commenced by petition, by the Free-port and Mississippi Bailroad Company, to condemn, under the Eminent Domain act, the whole of lots 10, 11 and 12, in block 5, on the east side of the Galena river, in the city of Galena, that remains after taking therefrom a strip of land ten feet in width off the east end