Jordan v. City of Chenoa
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of McLean county; the Hon. Thomas F. Tipton, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in equity brought by the city of Chenoa, against Eoscoe G. Jordan, to enjoin him from closing up an alley in block 15 in Hamilton’s first addition to Chenoa, running east and west between lots 1 and 2 on its north side and lots 3 and 4 on its south side.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of McLean county; the Hon. Thomas F. Tipton, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in equity brought by the city of Chenoa, against Eoscoe G. Jordan, to enjoin him from closing up an alley in block 15 in Hamilton’s first addition to Chenoa, running east and west between lots 1 and 2 on its north side and lots 3 and 4 on its south side. The following plat which appears in the record shows the lots in block 15 and the streets and alley as they were originally platted: [[Image here]]
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Craig
Hamilton’s first addition to Chenoa was laid out, platted and acknowledged, as required by law, on the 26th day of August, 1866, and the plat was duly recorded in the recorder’s office of McLean county on November 20, 1886. At the time the addition was laid out the lots were open and unenclosed prairie. In 1867 the appellant, Jordan, purchased lot 3, and on the third day of April, 1875, he purchased of one Peters the west half of lot 1 and all of lot 2. On the 17th of May, 1875, he purchased the west half of lot 4, and in 1894 he purchased the east half of lot 1. The city authorities of the…
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