Illinois Insurance v. Littlefield
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cass county; the Hon. Charles Turner, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery, filed by the Illinois Insurance Company against Hans H. Littlefield and David M. Irwin, for an injunction to restrain the defendants from obstructing an alley in Beardstown. The court below, on motion, dissolved the injunction and dismissed the bill, from which order the complainant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Breese
Appellants claim the alley in question to be a public alley, and a right to an unobstructed use of it as appurtenant to the ownership in fee of part of lot four in block one, which it bounds. All the lots in this block are fifty feet front on Main street, running back to the Illinois river.
Both parties claim through one Francis Arenz, deceased. Arenz was the owner of lots three and four in this block, and on the second day of April, 1839, conveyed to Robert Lindsey part of lot four in block one, namely: “ forty feet off the west side of said lot, fronting on Main street and running back to…
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