Town of Lake View v. Le Bahn
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Henry M. Shepard, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in equity, brought by John LeBahn, to enjoin the town of Lake View from disturbing the complainant in his possession of the north thirty-three feet of block 5, in a subdivision of the south-west half of the north-west quarter of section 29, town 40, north, range 14, in Cook county, and from prosecuting him for alleged obstruction of said strip of land as a street.
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Henry M. Shepard, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in equity, brought by John LeBahn, to enjoin the town of Lake View from disturbing the complainant in his possession of the north thirty-three feet of block 5, in a subdivision of the south-west half of the north-west quarter of section 29, town 40, north, range 14, in Cook county, and from prosecuting him for alleged obstruction of said strip of land as a street. The court below, on hearing, granted the relief asked, and the defendant has appealed. In thp year 1870, Barbara Diversey,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sheldon
The statute under which this plat was made, requires the owners to cause the town or subdivision to be surveyed by the county surveyor, and the plat thereof to describe particularly all the streets, etc., within or adjoining the same, giving the names, widths, corners, boundaries and extent of such streets ; that out-lots shall not exceed ten acres in size, shall be progressively numbered, and their precise length and width stated on the plat or map, together with any streets, etc., which shall divide or border on the same. The statute provides that a plat made out in conformity to its…
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