Wirt v. McEnery

This is an action of ejectment for the recovery of a strip of land in block 67, school-section addition to Chicago. The material facts essential to the disposition of the case, as I view them, are briefly those: In June, 1853, James Depuyster Ogdon was the owner in fee of block 67, in school-section addition to this city. In May, 1852, he gave to William B. Ogden a power of attorney, authorizing him to sell and convey the block in question, and also to plat and subdivide the same in such manner as he should deem best to make it marketable, and to acknowledge and record any plat which he…