Snyder v. City of Mt. Pulaski
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Third District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Logan county; the Hon. George W. Herdman, Judge, presiding." " On March 24, 1891, the appellant was granted, by ordinance, the right to erect and operate an incandescent electric light plant in the village of Mt. Pulaski for the term of twenty years.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Third District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Logan county; the Hon. George W. Herdman, Judge, presiding." " On March 24, 1891, the appellant was granted, by ordinance, the right to erect and operate an incandescent electric light plant in the village of Mt. Pulaski for the term of twenty years. On the 18th of April of the same year he purchased a lot on which a flour mill formerly stood, which, when in operation, had been supplied with water from a well in Green street, near its intersection with Spring street, in the village.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Phillips
The streets of a city are dedicated for public use, and for these purposes the city council may improve and control them and adopt needful rules for their management and use. But that body has no power to alien or otherwise encumber such streets so long as they are public streets, but must hold them in trust for public uses only, and hence no easement or right therein not of a public character can be granted by a municipality or acquired by any individual or corporation for exclusive private use, to the exclusion of the public. (Field v. Barling, 149 Ill. 556; Hibbard & Co. v. City of…
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