CHICAGO v. TAYLOR

No. 151.

125 U.S. 161 (1888)

CHICAGO v. TAYLOR.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 19, 1888.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Frederick S. Winston and Mr. John W. Green for plaintiff in error.

Mr. George A. Follansbee and Mr. Thomas M. Hoyne for defendants in error.


MR. JUSTICE HARLAN delivered the opinion of the court.

This action was brought by Moses Taylor, as owner of an undivided interest in a lot in Chicago, having sixty feet front on Lumber Street, one hundred and fifty feet on Eighteenth Street, and three hundred feet on the South Branch of Chicago River, to recover the damages sustained by reason of the construction, by that city, of a viaduct on Eighteenth Street, in the immediate vicinity of said lot. The city did...

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