Village of Brooklyn v. Smith
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Fourth District; —heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of St. Clair county; the Hon. Amos Watts, Judge, presiding.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Fourth District; —heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of St. Clair county; the Hon. Amos Watts, Judge, presiding. The bill in equity in this case for an injunction, filed December 27, 1879, sets out that on the 23d day of December, 1876, James A. Smith, the complainant, leased all that part of United States survey No. 764, in St. Clair county, Illinois, which lies west of Water street, in the town of Brooklyn, and extending to the center thread of the Mississippi river, from James Purdy and wife, they then being in the actual possession…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sheldon
The principal inquiry which arises in this case, as we view it, is as to the extent of Water street, in the town of Brooklyn, as it was originally laid out and platted—whether the western boundary of that street was the Mississippi river, or a straight north and south line, distant eighty feet west from the. front and west tier of blocks in the town. The complainant contends that the latter is the western boundary line of the street, and that this is conclusively determined to be so from the statement on the plat of eighty feet as the width of the street.
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