Town Plat

The acknowledgment and recording of a town plat vests the legal title to the ground embraced in the streets and alleys in the corporation of the town Therefore it is held that the proprietor who has thus dedicated the streets and alleys to the public cannot maintain trespass for an injury to the soil or freehold. The corporation alone can seek redress for such injury. 11 111. 654; 13 111. 54, 808. This is not so, however, with a highway. The original owner of the fee must bring his action for an injury to the soil. 13 111. 54. See "Highway." If the streets or alleys of a town are dedicated by a different mode from that pointed out by the statute, the fee remains in the proprietor, burdened with the public easement. 13 111. 312.

The acknowledgment and recording of a town-plat vests the legal title to the ground embraced in the streets and alleys in the corporation of the town; therefore it is held that the proprietor who has thus dedicated the streets and alleys to the public cannot maintain trespass for an injury to the soil or freehold. The corporation alone can seek redress for such injury; Board of Trustees v. Haven, 11 Ill. 554. This is not so, however, with a highway; the original owner of the fee must bring his action for an injury to the soil; Hunter v. Middleton, 13 Ill. 54. See Highway. If the streets or alleys of a town are dedicated by a different mode from that pointed out by the statute, the fee remains in the proprietor, burdened with the public easement; Manly v. Gibson, 13 Ill. 312. See Dedication.