Moore v. City of Chicago

James Hobart Moore filed a petition in the circuit court of Cook county for the purpose of having the title to certain real estate confirmed and established in him under the Burnt Records act. The city of Chicago was made a party defendant and answered the petition. The real estate in controversy is embraced within certain streets that appear on a plat of J. W. Cooper’s addition to the town of Hyde Park. The question presented was whether the title to the strips of land designated as streets on the Cooper plat is in the petitioner or in the city of Chicago. This question was decided against…