CRANE PAPER STOCK CO. v. CHI. & NW. RY. CO.

No. 44380.

63 Ill.2d 61 (1976)

344 N.E.2d 461

CRANE PAPER STOCK COMPANY et al., Appellants, v. CHICAGO AND NORTHWESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed March 18, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Scott, Attorney General, of Chicago (Edward J. Barrett and Robert J. Meyers, Assistant Attorneys General, of counsel), for appellant State of Illinois.

Yale Stein, of Skokie, for appellants Crane Paper Stock Co. et al.

James P. Daley and Thomas E. Greenland, of Chicago, for appellee Chicago and North Western Railway Co.

William R. Quinlan, Corporation Counsel, of Chicago (Daniel Pascale and Jerome A. Siegan, Assistant Corporation Counsel, of counsel), for appellee City of Chicago.


Affirmed in part and vacated in part and remanded.

MR. JUSTICE UNDERWOOD delivered the opinion of the court:

In 1964 plaintiff, Crane Paper Stock Company, initiated this lawsuit against defendants Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company (hereinafter Company) and the City of Chicago alleging that in connection with a 1959 purchase of property from the Company plaintiff was also granted an exclusive easement over a long narrow strip of land connecting plaintiff...

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