Leitch v. City of Chicago

ALSCHULER, Circuit Judge.

The appeal is from a decree of the District Court denying appellants’ motion for a preliminary injunction and directing that the bill be “dismissed for want of jurisdiction and for noneompliance with equity rules of this court.”

To the best of our understanding the bill charges that appellees, who are officials of the state of Illinois and of the city of Chicago, are threatening to fill up a navigable stream which is wholly within the limits of the city of Chicago, and bordering on which appellants have a piece of real estate which will thereby be injured.

What we term…