Wisconsin Central Railroad v. Wieczorek
Appellate Court of Illinois
Memorándum.—Trespass on the case for damages to real property. Error to the Circuit Court of. Cook County; the Hon. Richard W. Clifford, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1893, and affirmed.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Shepard,
delivered the opinion op the Court.
Defendant in error was the owner and in possession of three lots of land," situated on the south side of Rebecca street, at the southwest corner of that street and Paulina street, in Chicago, and having a frontage of seventy-two feet in width on said Rebecca street.
At the time he bought the property in 1883, two frame two-story houses stood upon the lots, one of which he occupied, in part, as a dwelling, and the rest he rented to tenants, for residence and business purposes.
It does not clearly appear when it was that the…
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