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UNITED STATES v. ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY

No. 331.

154 U.S. 225 (1894)

14 S.Ct. 1015

38 L.Ed. 971

UNITED STATES, v. ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 26, 1894.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Solicitor General for appellants.

Mr. Benjamin F. Ayer for the Illinois Central Railroad Company, appellee.

Mr. John S. Miller for the City of Chicago, appellee.

MR. JUSTICE FIELD delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal on the part of the United States from a decree of the Circuit Court sustaining a demurrer to an information or bill in equity, in which they were complainants and the Illinois Central and other railroad companies were defendants. The information charges that encroachments are made or threatened upon property of the United States, and the object of the information, so far as contended on the present...

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