Chicago Title & Trust Co. v. City of Chicago
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Branch Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Jesse Holdom, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wilkin
Blocks 5 to 16 of Pine Grove subdivision, in Cook county, extend from Evanston avenue to Lake Michigan. Blocks 6, 7 and 12 are so laid out that each is bounded on the east by a line marked on the plat of the subdivision, and between this east line and the shore of Lake Michigan is a strip of land 2172 feet long north and south by about 160 feet wide east and west. Since 1871 one Parker R. Mason had been in possession and claimed to own the land in front of block 7, extending from the east lot line to the lake shore, together with considerable other land to the north and south of it, being in…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Mason v. City of ChicagoIllinois Supreme Court · 1896
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