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57 Ill. App. 407

Tripp v. O'Brien

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided January 28, 1895

Appellate Court of Illinois · decided 1895-01-28

Memorandum.—Appeal from an order granting an injunction entered by the Circuit Comb of Cook County; the Hon. Edward F. Dunne, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1894, and affirmed.

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Decided 1895-01-28

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Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently February 1948

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Mb. Justice G-aby

¶1delivbbed the opinion of the Couet.

¶2The appellant bought a lot on a short street, subject to a building line agreement made by the previous owners of all the. property on both sides of the street, and proceeded to build in violation of the agreement. His neighbors procured an injunction, from the order granting which, this appeal was taken. His defense is, who begun it ?

¶3The majority of this court are of opinion that front steps over the building line, and ornamental projections pertaining to. the houses of his neighbors, do not justify or'estop them to question his act in erecting the front wall of his house several feet over the line.

¶4The order is therefore affirmed. But if it were reversed he could not prudently proceed with his building, for if on a final decree by the court of last resort it should be held that he was wrong, he might be compelled to take down that part of his house. Bispham’s Eq., Sec. 404.

¶5And a wager upon the decision of a court of last resort is staked upon an uncertain event. Jones v. Randall, 1 Cowper, 37.

¶6Order affirmed.

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