Davis v. City of Chicago

Mr. Presiding Justice Matchett

delivered the opinion of the court.

In an action on the case "by plaintiff, the owner of real estate, for damages alleged to have been caused by the vacation of parts of two city streets, and upon trial by jury there was a verdict for plaintiff in the sum of $43,588, upon which judgment was entered. The city contends for reversal that an instruction for defendant requested at the close of all the evidence should have been given, and that the court erred in allowing evidence to be given over the objection of defendant.

A plat of the property appears in the record…