City of Ottawa v. Yentzer
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of LaSalle county; the Hon. Dorrance Dibell, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Baker
This was ejectment brought by Yentzer, against the city of Ottawa, to recover possession of the east forty feet of lot 1, in block 39, in the original town of Ottawa, which strip of land was being used by the city as a public highway. The original town of Ottawa was platted in May, 1837, by the canal commissioners of the Illinois and Michigan Canal, and was located on a part of the land conveyed by the United States to the State of Illinois in March, 1827, for canal purposes. <, The issues formed in the action were submitted to the circuit court of LaSalle county without the intervention of a…
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