Simpson v. Mikkelsen

This is a proceeding in chancery in the superior court of Cook county, begun by Johanna E. Mikkelsen and eleven other complainants, owners of lots fronting on Humboldt boulevard between California avenue and Western avenue, in the city of Chicago, seeking to compel appellants, John Simpson and Minnie Simpson, to move back to a building line fifty feet from the street a two-story frame dwelling house which had been constructed by the latter upon lot 22, twenty-three and one-fourth feet from the street, in block 7, in Harriet Farlin’s subdivision of the west half of the south-east quarter of…