Chatfield v. City of Cincinnati

Plaintiff avers ownership and possession of fifty-two feet, more or less, on Saunders street, Cincinnati, extending northward to Estelle street, and improved by a dwelling-house. He claims that the city has entered upon his said lot and constructed and maintains a public stairway and plank walk thereon between Estelle and Saunders streets to his irreparable injury, and prays a perpetual injunction.

*45The city by answer claims 23 feet of the east 25 feet of said premises through dedication by plaintiff’s predecessors in title; and issue is taken by a general reply.

Waiving the obvious criticism…