Dale v. Metzmaker

Citations

• 63 Ill. 38

Syllabus

<p>Town plat. In an action of trespass for entering upon plaintiff’s premises and tearing down his fence—the defendants defending under au order of the town board of the town of Virginia to remove the fence, the town claiming the premises as a public street—the court permitted to be read in evidence a copy from the records of a plat alleged to have been made under the authority of one Robert Hall, showing an addition to the town and in which the premises were laid down as a public street: Seld, that the plat was improperly admitted, there being no evidence that it was made by the authority of the owner of the premises, nor was it signed or acknowledged by him, but merely had the surveyor’s certificate explanatory of the diagram.</p>