Gebhardt v. Reeves
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Henry Booth, Judge, presiding. This was an action of ejectment, brought by Abner Beeves against Charles Gebhardt, for certain real estate in Bronson’s addition to the city of Chicago.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Henry Booth, Judge, presiding. This was an action of ejectment, brought by Abner Beeves against Charles Gebhardt, for certain real estate in Bronson’s addition to the city of Chicago. It appeared that Beeves, being the owner of four lots in Bronson’s addition, subdivided them into twenty-seven lots, with streets and alleys, and that the defendant afterward acquired title to certain lots of this subdivision, and that, several years after this, the city council of Chicago, on petition of the property holders, vacated the streets and alleys.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scott
Whatever may be the decision in other States, under statutes similar or identical with ours, it is settled definitely in this State, that where a plat is executed, certified, acknowledged and recorded in conformity with the provisions of the statute of 1845, in relation to laying out towns, additions and subdivisions of lots, the fee of all that portion of the land designated as streets and alleys becomes absolutely vested in the corporation of the town or city, in trust for the use and benefit of the public. If the plat is recorded before the town has a corporate existence, the fee remains…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Board of Trustees v. HavenIllinois Supreme Court · 1850
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