Alexander v. Tolleston Club
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. M. F. Tuley, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Sheldon
delivered the' opinion of the Court:
This was a bill filed by the Tolleston Club of Chicago, for an injunction against Elijah S. Alexander, to restrain him from interfering with the complainant in the use of a certain canal and foot-path along its bank, in respect of which complainant claims a right of way.
The case, in its general outline, as made by the proofs, is, that during the spring of 1871 certain gentlemen of Chicago formed an association called the “Tolleston Club,” the object of which was shooting and fishing in the Tolleston marshes. They purchased a tract of sixty acres of land in…
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