City of Chicago v. McGraw

This was trespass by the plaintiff in the court below, and now appellee, against the defendant in that court, and now appellant, for injuries done to her property, under the direction of the defendant, in excavating, widening and deepening the Illinois & Michigan canal, at Canal Port, in Cook county. There was evidence on the trial that the title to the property claimed to have been injured was originally in the name of the plaintiff’s husband, John MeGraw; that he and she joined in a deed, and conveyed it to their son, Peter J. MeGraw, on the 18th of April, 1859, and Peter J. MeGraw…