Field v. Leiter
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Thomas A. Moban, Judge, presiding. The original bill in this case was brought by Levi Z. Leiter, against Marshall Field, and is for relief and for an injunction. After answering the' original bill, defendant filed a cross-bill, in which he also asked for affirmative relief, and for an injunction, concerning the matters involved.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Thomas A. Moban, Judge, presiding. The original bill in this case was brought by Levi Z. Leiter, against Marshall Field, and is for relief and for an injunction. After answering the' original bill, defendant filed a cross-bill, in which he also asked for affirmative relief, and for an injunction, concerning the matters involved. On the hearing in the circuit court, the cross-bill of defendant was dismissed, and relief decreed substantially as asked for in the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scot-t
The parties are owners of contiguous properties, each extending southward from Monroe street a distance of one hundred and eighty-nine feet, and the issue made by the pleadings is as to the right of defendant to strengthen the foundations of an existing wall on the line separating the land owned by the respective parties, so that it may support an additional wall, which, it is conceded, defendant, Field, has the right to erect, under the contract of the 28th day of April, 1884. The contention between the parties relates exclusively as to the mode of strengthening the foundation of the…
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