Gordon v. Winston

This proceeding by injunction was begun in .the circuit court of Cook county August 11,1896, by the commissioners of Lincoln park, against Charles U. Gordon, to enjoin him from constructing piers upon the submerged lands along the shore of Lake Michigan adjacent to lot 13 of Simmons & Gordon’s addition "to Chicago, belonging to defendant. The bill alleges that by the act of June 15, 1895, enabling park commissioners having control of any park bordering upon public waters in this State to enlarge the same, and granting to them, for park purposes, the submerged lands in the lake, extending out…