Stroup v. Codo

Plaintiffs, Eldon L. Stroup and Hilda Stroup, and defendant, Charlotte Codo, are owners of adjoining commercial lots which abut at their northern boundaries upon West Jefferson Street in the City of Joliet. Both lots are shaped as parallelograms, the plaintiffs having frontage of 110 feet, the defendants having frontage of forty feet, and the depth of each lot being 139 feet. A one-story frame building measuring approximately 18' x 36' located at the northeast corner of plaintiffs’ lot has been used for some time during warmer seasons of every year as a drive-in ice cream stand. A fence…