Robbins v. Commissioners of Lincoln Park

Appellants filed a bill in the circuit court of Cook county seeking to restrain the appellee, the Commissioners of Lincoln Park, in the city of Chicago, from erecting an embankment and boulevard across certain property acquired under an act entitled, “An act to enable park commissioners having control of any park bordering upon public waters in this State, to enlarge the same from time to time, and granting submerged lands for the purpose of such enlargements, and to defray the costs thereof,” in force July i, 1895. (Cahill’s Stat. 1927, chap. 105, par. 187.) Appellee demurred to the bill.…