Guttery v. Glenn
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Logan county; the Hon. John H. Moffett, Judge, presiding. This is a bill for .injunction, filed in October, 1901, in the circuit court of Logan county by the appellee, James A. Glenn, against the appellants, William V. Guttery, as president, and six other persons, composing the board of directors of the village of Middletown, and Walter Ray-born, clerk of said village, alleging that a certain street, shown oh the plats hereinafter mentioned…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Logan county; the Hon. John H. Moffett, Judge, presiding. This is a bill for .injunction, filed in October, 1901, in the circuit court of Logan county by the appellee, James A. Glenn, against the appellants, William V. Guttery, as president, and six other persons, composing the board of directors of the village of Middletown, and Walter Ray-born, clerk of said village, alleging that a certain street, shown oh the plats hereinafter mentioned and called Union street, runs east and west, and crosses the public square in said village, and praying that the…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Magruder
Substantially, the only question to be determined in this case is, whether Union street, running from west to east, was intended by the original owners, who made the plat of the addition to Middletown, to cross the “Public Square,” or whether Union street was intended to run from west to east as far as Clinton street on the west side of the square, and then to run from east to west as far as" Madison street on the east side of the square. In other words, was Union street intended to cross the square, so as to divide it into two blocks, one on the north side of Union street, and one on the…
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