Summerfield v. City of Chicago

On the third day of January, 1900, the city council of the city of Chicago passed an ordinance providing for the widening of Stewart avenue from the south line of Seventy-second street to a point one hundred and thirty-two feet south of the crossing of Stewart avenue and Seventy-second street. To thus widen the avenue, required the extension of the avenue eastward, at the south-east corner of the intersection of the avenue and Seventy-second street, over a parcel of ground of the width of forty feet at the north end and of the width of about ten feet at the south end, being one hundred and…