Parker v. Catholic Bishop
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. H. M. Shepard, Judge, presiding.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. H. M. Shepard, Judge, presiding. John F. Starr, owning a tract of land bounded on the north by an eighteen foot alley, on the east by Oakley street, on the south by Washington street, and on the west by other land in the city of Chicago, November 4, 1858, subdivided said tract into fourteen lots, numbered from 1 to 14 inclusive, acknowledged a plat of said subdivision, and filed the same for record. By the plat, an alley was dedicated east and west through…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shore
It is urged as ground of reversal, that the facts alleged in the bill show that the city council was without power to vacate that portion of the alley, lying between lot 5- and lots 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14, as shown in the plat of Starr’s subdivision, and that, as a condition precedent to the vacation of the same, it was necessary that the damages to complainant’s lots be ascertained and paid. The municipality holds the streets and alleys of the city in trust for the general public, and by the statute is given power to vacate the same whenever the public interest or convenience, in the exercise…
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