Osgood v. City of Chicago

The plaintiffs are the executors of the last will and devisees in trust of the late Joel Ellis, who died October 29,1886. Old residents of the city of Chicago remember Archibald Clybourne and Joel. Ellis, as composing the firm of Clybourne & Ellis, butchers, when this now great city was scarcely more than a muddy village.

The property in question is the northwest corner of Jackson and Canal streets; 160 feet south front on Jackson and 140 feet east front on Canal. The appellants sued the city for damages they allege to that property by the building of the approach to a viaduct over Canal…