Curtis v. Rubin

The appellees, who are owners of lots in blocks 8 and 9 in Twelfth street addition to Chicago, filed the bill in this case, in the superior court of Cook county against the appellants, who are the owners of lot 1 in block 9, to enjoin an encroachment beyond an alleged building line designated on the plat of the addition fifteen feet south of the street line. The defendants did not dispute the original creation of the building line by the making and recording of the plat of the addition, but by their answer they denied that it had been observed by the lot owners, and alleged that it had been…