Way v. Roth
Appellate Court of Illinois
Bill for Relief.—In equity. Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of St. Clair County; the Hon. Alonzo S. Wilderman, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the August term, 1894.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Scofield
delivered the opinion of the Court.
There were four lots in Alta Sita, each of twenty-five feet frontage, and numbered, respectively, 30, 31, 32 and 33, in block 13. In the spring of 1892, Mrs. Clara A. Brooks was the owner of lots 30 and 31, and John A. Perry was the owner of lots 32 and 33.
Mrs. Brooks’ husband, as her agent, began the erection of a two-story building on her lots, as he supposed. He completed the foundation and erected»certain out-buildings. By mistake, however, these improvements were made on lots 32 and 33 instead of lots 30 and 31.
Mrs. Brooks,…
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