North Chicago City Railway Co. v. Town of Lake View

Citations

• 105 Ill. 183
• 1883 Ill. LEXIS 78

Syllabus

<p>Municipal corporation-—power to pass ordinance protecting use of its streets. . An incorporated town, by its charter clothed with a general police power over its streets, and also with a like general power over the subject of nuisances, has the right and authority to pass an ordinance requiring a city railway company to make its railway track, located in and along any of its streets, conform to the requirements thereof, so as to enable wagons, carnages and other vehicles to pass over its track without inconvenience or danger, and to punish for a failure to do so.</p>