Hamilton v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Joseph E. Gary, Judge, presiding. This was an action of ejectment.
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Joseph E. Gary, Judge, presiding. This was an action of ejectment. The premises sought to-be recovered are described in the declaration, as follows: “All those parts and portions of May street, Canal street, Hamilton street and Owen street, as laid out upon a plat of Canalport, which plat was recorded in the recorder’s office of Cook county, December 4, 1835, in book ‘H,’ at page 163, and which said parts and portions of said streets are now embraced within lots 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 and 27, in block 11, as laid down upon the plat of S. J.…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Sheldon
Questions are made whether the proof shows the legal title to the premises to have been in Hamilton and Pearsons, the ancestors of the plaintiffs, at the time they made the plat of ■Canalport, and whether the plat was made out and acknowledged in conformity with the statute, so as to take effect as a statutory plat. We do not find it necessary to consider these questions, for the reason, that assuming their affirmative, that the proof does show the legal title to have been in Hamilton and Pearsons at the time they laid out Canalport, and that the plat was in all respects in conformity with…
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