Earll v. City of Chicago

On the third day of May, 1854, William B. Ogden was the owner, in his individual right, of eighty acres of land lying on the west side of the city of Chicago, and some three miles west of Lake Michigan, except about three acres thereof, which he had theretofore conveyed, by metes and bounds, to one Potwin. He was also the owner, jointly with one Rockwell, of eighty acres of adjoining land. His brother, Mahlon D. Ogden, was his agent and attorney in fact. On the day mentioned, the one hundred and sixty acres were subdivided into lots, blocks, streets and alleys, and on the 18th day of July,…