Remy v. City of Chicago

The controversy in this case concerns the existence of a street over a strip of ground 5.28 feet wide and 196 feet long at the southwest corner of Surf street and Sheridan road, in the city of Chicago. The defendant in error, William Remy, was the owner of lots 1 and 2 in the re-subdivision of block 1 in LeMoyne’s subdivision of the south sixteen acres of the east half of the northwest quarter of section 28, town 40, north, range 14, east of the third principal meridian. Lot 1 lies north of lot 2 and adjoins Surf street on the south. The two lots have a frontage of 98 feet on Sheridan road…