Natural Products Co. v. Dolese & Shepard Co.

The appellee, the Dolese & Shepard Company, is a corporation which for many years has been engaged in the business of quarrying, crushing and selling stone. On April 29, 1914, it was the owner of a tract of land in the city of Naperville, in DuPage county, on which there was an abandoned stone quarry, and adjoining agricultural lands and a considerable number of lots near the quarry, in a residence district of the city of Naperville. Frederick W. von Oven was in the nursery business, and on that day the appellee conveyed to him the tract upon which the abandoned quarry was located and the…