Malone v. Smith

State: Illinois

Court: 4th District Appellate

Docket No: 4-04-0156 Rel

Case Date: 02/16/2005

NO. 4-04-0156

IN THE APPELLATE COURT

OF ILLINOIS

FOURTH DISTRICT

LAVERNE MALONE; SHARON MALONE;	)	Appeal from
WILLIAM C. EDWARDS, as Trustee Under	)	Circuit Court of
Declaration of Trust of WILLIAM C.	)	DeWitt County
EDWARDS and WILLIAM C. EDWARDS, as	)	No. 99MR26
Trustee Under Declaration of Trust of	)
BERTHA A. EDWARDS,	)
Plaintiffs-Appellees,	)
v.	)
KENNETH SMITH; PATRICIA SMITH;	)
HELEN GILLILAND HUGHES, Trustee of the	)
HELEN GILLILAND HUGHES TRUST; ANN I.	)
GILLILAND; MARGARET GRISSOM; MARION DAY;	)
SHIRLEY DAY; ESTHER CROTCHETT; PAUL DAY;	)
MAURICE DAY; CAROLE SCHOVE; and UNKNOWN	)	Honorable
OWNERS,	)	Stephen H. Peters,
Defendants-Appellants.	)	Judge Presiding.

PRESIDING JUSTICE COOK delivered the opinion of thecourt:

This is the latest in a series of cases involving theownership of a right-of-way of the Illinois Central Railroad(ICR), abandoned in the late 1980s. These cases have addressedsection 912 of Title 43 of the United States Code (43 U.S.C.