People v. Rees

The plaintiff in error, Louis Rees, owned a brick building, and the lot on which it stood, at 11,028 Michigan avenue, in Roseland, in the city of Chicago. The building had a basement and was two stories high above the ground in front and one story in the rear. The second story was occupied by him as a dwelling with his wife and three small children and was entered by a stairway in front and there was a passageway over the one-story part to the rear. The first story was used for a clothing and furnishing store and the basement for the storage of leaf tobacco and making of cigars. The building…