Town of Lake View v. Le Bahn

Citations

• 120 Ill. 92

Syllabus

<p>1. Town pdat—certifying the same, under act of 1845. The statute of 1845 did not require the county commissioners to certify a town plat, except where they laid ■ out the town, or made an addition thereto. Where other persons made the plat, they, only, were required to acknowledge it.</p> <p>2. Same—certainty in surveyor’s plat—as to the meaning of figures in giving the length of lines. A surveyor’s plat of the subdivision of land into lots and streets showed the streets by .name, and gave the numbers to the lots, with the number of acres they contained, and there were figures intended to indicate the length of the lines showing the streets and the boundaries of the lots, but there was nothing to show whether the figures meant feet, inches, chains, or links: Held, that as the plat was made by a surveyor, the measurements indicated thereon should be taken as surveyor’s measurement of chains and links,—not long measure of feet and inches,—and that the plat was not void for uncertainty in that regard.</p> <p>3. Dedication—quantity in lots described by acres, which must include parts of streets, and their assessment accordingly—effect on the dedication. Where a lot or block is marked on the recorded plat as containing so many acres, which it contains only by including one-half of the street on each side thereof, and it is assessed as of that number of acres, this will not defeat a dedication of the ground marked as a street.</p> <p>4. Same—acceptance by thepublic—ofthe time allowed. The immediate opening and use, by the public, of all the streets in ground laid out and platted into lots, for their entire length, or an immediate formal acceptance by some competent public authority, is not necessary to give effect to the dedication of land to the public use, of a street, by the making of a town plat and the selling of lots with reference to the plat. The public authorities must be allowed a reasonable time for opening and improving public streets, as their resources an