Oswald v. Wolf

This was a hill in chancery, filed by appellee, Wolf, against appellant, in the Superior Court of Cook county. The bill alleges, in substance, that in December, 1855, one Peter Duffy, being the owner in fee 'of a certain tract of land in Cook county, lying on the west side of and adjoining Halsted street, containing ten acres, conveyed to the complainant the west one-third of said tract, and also, at the same time and by the same deed, conveyed to the complainant the right of way over a strip of land fourteen feet in width, particularly describing it, and running from said west one-third of…