City of Mattoon v. Noyes
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the City Court of Mattoon; the Hon. L. C. Henley, Judge, presiding. Sara E. P. Noyes, the defendant in error, obtained an injunction in the city court of the city of Mattoon against said city and Loomis & Rose, contractors, restraining them from constructing a certain sidewalk which the city, by an ordinance, had theretofore ordered laid.
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Writ of Error to the City Court of Mattoon; the Hon. L. C. Henley, Judge, presiding. Sara E. P. Noyes, the defendant in error, obtained an injunction in the city court of the city of Mattoon against said city and Loomis & Rose, contractors, restraining them from constructing a certain sidewalk which the city, by an ordinance, had theretofore ordered laid. The decree rendered by the city court, following the allegations of the bill, finds that on August 13, 1893, one Francis V. Noyes died testate owning a tract of land in the east half of the north-west quarter of section 14, town 12, north,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scott
It is first urged by plaintiff in error that executor’s subdivision No. 1 and executor’s subdivision No. 2 of Francis V. Noyes’ estate, shown by the plat contained in the transcript of the record, are in fact one and the same subdivision, and that the streets therein were conveyed to the city of Mattoon by one and the same statutory dedication; that various lots in subdivision No. I had been sold and conveyed to various persons after the dedication and prior to the filing of the declaration or deed of vacation, and that as these grantees did not join in the deed of vacation that deed was…
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