Marshall v. Pfeiffer

In the year 1861 Charles Floyd Jones and Madison Miller, who were then the owners of a certain tract of land located in section 13, township 1, north, range 1, west of the third principal meridian, in Clinton county, Illinois, caused said tract to be surveyed and platted as a town site, the same being known as the Town of Western Addition. The plat complied with all the statutory requirements. The plat was divided into eight blocks, and six strips of land were shown thereon as streets, three running east and west and designated as South Third, Fourth and Fifth streets, respectively, and three…