Legal Opinion

Fitzgerald v. Quinn

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided May 16, 1895Published

Forcible Detainer.—Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. John Gibbons, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1895.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shepard

delivered the opihiost op the Court.

This was an action of forcible detainer to recover possession of a strip of land twenty-six inches in width at the west or front end of a lot numbered 19, and tapering- to the width of twenty inches at the east or rear end of said lot.

Said lot 19 appears by a plat attached to the transcript to be one of several lots forming a subdivision in what is now a part of the city of Chicago, and said strip comprises the north side of said lot.

Next to it is lot 20 in the same subdivision. In the Circuit Court the cause was tried upon the following agreed facts:

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2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Riverside Co. v. TownshendIllinois Supreme Court · 1886
  2. Thomasson v. WilsonIllinois Supreme Court · 1893
  3. Thomasson v. WilsonAppellate Court of Illinois · 1892

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