Stockton v. City of Chicago

This was a proceeding in the Superior Court of Cook county, to condemn certain property in block 84, school section addition to Chicago, for the purpose of a public alley. Appellant owned lots 11 and 12 in said block. Lot 11 has a frontage of fifty feet on Market street, and lot 12 the same on Franklin street, each extending back about one hundred and sixty-three feet, and joining in the center of the block. On these lots is located a two-story brick building, fifty feet wide, and extending from a point twenty-six and a half feet east of Market street, to a point forty-two feet east of the…