McCormick v. Bauer

Augustus Bauer, on the 22d day of January, 1886, exhibited his bill in the circuit court of Cook county, against the appellants, Cyrus H. McCormick, Jr., and others, praying for the partition of certain real estate, being all, or some portions of, lots 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14, block 10, in Samuel J. Walker’s dock addition to Chicago, and described in the bill as follows: “Beginning at the north-east corner of said lot 9, running thence south, on the east line of said lots, 440 feet, to a point 40 feet south of the north-east corner of said lot 13; thence south-westerly 266 feet, more or…