Bryan v. City of East St. Louis

Citations

• 105 Ill. 144
• 1882 Ill. LEXIS 246

Syllabus

<p>Appeaii—whether it lies to this court. On a bill by the owner of a lot alleging such ownership and actual possession, and that no proceedings were ever instituted to dispossess him of his title, and that the city in which the lots are, had thrown down his fence, and by force and violence interrupted his possession, and praying for an injunction to prevent any further disturbance of his possession, no appeal lies in favor of the complainant directly to this court from a decree dismissing his bill, no freehold being involved. The appeal in such a case should be, in the first instance, to the Appellate Court.</p>