Bryan v. City of East St. Louis
Appellate Court of Illinois
Error to the Circuit Court of St. Clair county; the Hon. Amos "Watts, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtBaker, P. J.
This was a bill for an injunction filed by William Bryan against the City of East St. Louis and Maurice Joyce, its Mayor. The cause was heard on bill, answer, replication and proofs, and the court found the issues for the defendants, and dismissed the bill.
The bill states complainant has been since 1871 the owner in fee, under a deed, of lots 79 and 80, block 36 of the town of Illinois City, and in the actual occupation of the same (except that part of lot 79 occupied by the plank road of the Collinsville Plank Hoad Company) as a homestead, and has during that time claimed and paid the taxes…
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