Diederich v. Rose
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Joseph E. Gary, Judge, presiding.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Joseph E. Gary, Judge, presiding. The appellant filed a bill in the superior court of Cook county January 22, 1906, representing that for several years he had leased a certain piece of land in Chicago from the board of canal commissioners of Illinois and had improved and built certain structures thereon; that in the latter part of 1895 he agreed with the canal commissioners to take a new lease for ten years; that the lease was signed March 7, 1896, whereby the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Carter
At the time this lease was made the canal commissioners had no power to sell land in Chicago. Previous to 1874 they had both power of sale and of giving leases practically unlimited as to time. (Granger v. Board of Trustees, 18 Ill. 443; Sanitary District of Chicago v. Adam, 179 id. 406.) From 1874 to 1891 the law allowed them to lease land for a maximum term of ten years. From 1891 to 1899 the law permitted them to lease the lands for not more than twenty years, and in the last named year an amendment gave the canal commissioners power of sale of canal lands in Chicago, the same as they had…
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