McCormick v. South Park Commissioners
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. M. P. Tuley, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery in the circuit court of Cook county, brought by appellant, to restrain appellee, the Board of South Park Commissioners, from interfering with the construction, by appellant, of a balcony in front of his hotel building located on Michigan avenue, in the city of Chicago.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. M. P. Tuley, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery in the circuit court of Cook county, brought by appellant, to restrain appellee, the Board of South Park Commissioners, from interfering with the construction, by appellant, of a balcony in front of his hotel building located on Michigan avenue, in the city of Chicago. The bill shows the organization of the Board of South Park Commissioners as a municipal corporation under the acts of the legislature of 1869 ; that the city of Chicago granted, by ordinance of June 23, 1879, to…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shope
This is an appeal from the decree of the circuit court of Cook county, dismissing, for want of equity, appellant’s bill, brought to restrain appellees from interfering with the construction of a balcony in front of appellant’s hotel building on Michigan avenue, in the city of Chicago. The balcony which appellant proposed erecting would project out from the front of his building some six feet beyond the lot line, at' a height of sixteen feet above the sidewalk, and was to be about thirty-three feet long, and supported by pillars of the archway or entrance, placed fifteen years before, by…
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