SNOW v. DIXON

No. 48694.

66 Ill.2d 443 (1977)

362 N.E.2d 1052

ROBERT H. SNOW, Appellee, v. ALAN J. DIXON, State Treasurer, et al. — (Alan J. Dixon, State Treasurer, et al., Appellants; Marvin E. Schatzman et al., Appellees.)

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied May 27, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Scott, Attorney General, of Chicago (Herbert Lee Caplan and Gerald T. Rohrer, Assistant Attorneys General, of counsel), for appellants Alan J. Dixon et al.

Barnet Hodes, J. Herzl Segal, Malcolm S. Kamin, and Pamela Baker, of Arvey, Hodes, Costello & Burman, of Chicago, for appellant Illinois Central Gulf Railroad Co.

Harry A. Young, Jr., and Ronald G. Silbert, of Neistein, Richman, Hauslinger & Young, Ltd., of Chicago, for appellee Robert H. Snow.

Gerald W. Shea, of Berwyn, for appellee Marvin E. Schatzman.

Bernard Carey, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Paul P. Biebel, Jr., Deputy State's Attorney, and Dorothy Kirie Kinnaird, Assistant State's Attorney, of counsel), for appellees County of Cook et al.


Affirmed as modified; cause remanded.

MR. JUSTICE MORAN delivered the opinion of the court:

In 1851, by "An Act to incorporate the Illinois Central Railroad company" (1851 Private Laws of Illinois 61, hereinafter, the charter), the Illinois General Assembly authorized construction of a railroad line between Chicago and Cairo with a branch to the Mississippi River via Galena, and granted for that purpose a 200-foot right-of-way and approximately 2.6 million...

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