Village of Riverside v. MacLain
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Axel Chytraus, Judge, presiding. This is a bill, filed in the superior court of Cook county on September 24, 1903, by appellees as complainants, who were owners of certain lots in block 4 of the first division of Riverside, against the village of Riverside as defendant, to restrain the latter from opening an alleged highway, intended, as is claimed by appellant, to be a pleasure driveway, but intended, as is claimed by…
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Axel Chytraus, Judge, presiding. This is a bill, filed in the superior court of Cook county on September 24, 1903, by appellees as complainants, who were owners of certain lots in block 4 of the first division of Riverside, against the village of Riverside as defendant, to restrain the latter from opening an alleged highway, intended, as is claimed by appellant, to be a pleasure driveway, but intended, as is claimed by appellees, to be a public road and highway, across a strip of land lying immediately north and west of said block 4,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Magruder
After a careful examination of the record, plats, maps and evidence we are of the opinion, that the testimony sustains the findings of the court below, and that the decree entered by it is correct.
About March 1,1869, the Riverside Improvement Company, incorporated under a special act of the legislature of Illinois for the purpose of establishing a suburban town, became the owner of the south half of section 25, and the whole of sections 35 and 36 in township 39 nórth, range 12, east of the third principal meridian, except that part lying south of the DesPlaines river, and also of some parts…
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