People ex rel. Kocourek v. City of Chicago & Schlesinger & Meyer

At a former term, on application by the relator, leave was given to file a petition in this court for a writ of mandamus against the city of Chicago, to compel it, by its proper officers, to remove, or cause to be removed, a certain bridge or superstructure over and across a certain alley, alleged to be a public alley, in- said city, constructed, with the permission of the corporate authorities of said city, across said alley by Schlesinger & Mayer, an alleged co-partnership, connecting the third stories of their buildings, they having buildings on each side of the alley which they used in…