Legal Opinion

Chicago Dock & Canal Co. v. Kinzie

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided September 15, 1879PublishedCited by 9 opinions

Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Samuel M. Moore, Judge, presiding. Appellee filed her petition in the Superior Court of Cook county, on the 27th of March, 1874. It states: That the petitioner claims to be endowed of part of the north fraction of section 10, township 39 N., range 14 E. of 3d principal meridian, Cook county, Illinois, embraced within the following boundaries: beginning at the S. W. corner of lot 4 in block 8, in the Chicago Dock and…

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Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Samuel M. Moore, Judge, presiding. Appellee filed her petition in the Superior Court of Cook county, on the 27th of March, 1874. It states: That the petitioner claims to be endowed of part of the north fraction of section 10, township 39 N., range 14 E. of 3d principal meridian, Cook county, Illinois, embraced within the following boundaries: beginning at the S. W. corner of lot 4 in block 8, in the Chicago Dock and Canal Company’s subdivision of the original water lot 35, and accretions thereto, and all of block 8 and accretions, and…

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scholfield

Two questions arise upon this record.: 1st. Is the property in which appellee claims dower, described in the petition as “part of the north fraction of section 10, township 39 N., range 14 E. of 3d principal meridian, Cook county, Illinois, embraced within the following boundaries : beginning at the S. W. corner of lot 4 in block 8, in the Chicago Dock and Canal Company’s subdivision of the original water lot 35, and accretions thereto, and all of block 8 and accretions, and that part of block 19 lying east of sub-block 2, all in Kinzie’s addition to Chicago, running thence by direct line in…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Colcord v. AlexanderIllinois Supreme Court · 1873
  2. Miller v. HandyIllinois Supreme Court · 1866

3Cited by9 opinions

  1. City of Chicago v. WardIllinois Supreme Court · 1897
  2. Hartung v. WitteWisconsin Supreme Court · 1884
  3. Fuller v. SheddIllinois Supreme Court · 1896
  4. Percival v. ChaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1903
  5. Evans v. GerryIllinois Supreme Court · 1898

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