Schnell v. City of Chicago

This was a bill in chancery brought in the Superior Court of Chicago, by the City of Chicago against the appellants, to restrain and perpetually enjoin them from prosecuting an action of ejectment they had commenced in that court to recover the possession of certain premises held by the city and claimed to belong to the city.

The facts of the case are in substance, as follows: One Jacob Milliman in his life-time having a pre-emption right to out lots forty-five, forty-six, forty-eight and forty-nine, in the Canal Trustee’s sub-division of section thirty-three (33), in town forty north, in…