Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar

“ The question in this branch of the case is whether, as is contended by the plaintiff, the line designated in the plat of partition adopted by the decree of the chancery court of Cook county, and approved by the president and board of trustees of the village of Hyde Park, is the true southern boundary of the McKey tract, or whether, as is insisted by the defendant, the center line of Forty-First street is that boundary. The facts adduced by the plaintiff in support of his contention are that the whole of the N. E. 1/4 of section 3 was owned by the canal commissioners ”

“ The fence on the south line between the MeKey land and the Bowen land was an old fence, which used to blow down. The pressure of the wind would dreak it down, and he had to patch it up. It was an old fence in 1869, made on cedar posts,-a straight fence running through from Vincennes avenue to Grand boulevard. The wind would blow it down sometimes three or four lengths at a time. ”

“ The decree reads as follows: 'It appearing to the court that the plat in said report attached, marked 'E,' which said commissioners have entitled 'McKey's Addition to Hyde Park,' being a subdivision made by circuit court commissioners in partition of that part of the south ten acres of the north-west quarter, etc., represents their subdivision of the land above described under description No. ”