Deaconess Home & Hospital v. Bontjes
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Second District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Peoria county; the Hon. L. D. Püterbaugh, Judge, presiding. “Mrs. .Emelia Bontjes, a widow, bought a half lot, fifty feet wide and three hundred and twenty-three feet deep, upon a bluff in a residence district in the city of Peoria, at a cost of over $5000, and in 1894 built thereon a dwelling house,, which she has ever since occupied as her home.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Second District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Peoria county; the Hon. L. D. Püterbaugh, Judge, presiding. “Mrs. .Emelia Bontjes, a widow, bought a half lot, fifty feet wide and three hundred and twenty-three feet deep, upon a bluff in a residence district in the city of Peoria, at a cost of over $5000, and in 1894 built thereon a dwelling house,, which she has ever since occupied as her home. She also built a barn. She expended about $13,000 in improvements. Her family consists of herself, her daughter, her daughter’s husband…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scott
The first assignment of error to which our attention is called is that the relief granted does not correspond with the relief prayed in the bill. The prayer is, that the defendant be “restrained and enjoined from further operating and carrying on said home and hospital.” By the decree it is permanently restrained from carrying on and operating" a hospital in the building which it now occupies “during the continuance of the relative proximity of the complainant’s said residence and the building of the defendant heretofore used * * * as a hospital, and of the present internal and external…
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