08/01/1922 Board of Public Works Minutes

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s a In Testimony Whereof, we have hereunto set our kden.ds and Seals this lst. day of August 1922, in duplicate CITY OF SOUTfi BEND. BY L. B. . SLAUGHTER L,. P-. HARDY ALBERT F. HONER. -Beard of Public Works of -the City of South Bend, DANIEL A. PETERS. Property owners on Harrison Avenue from Lincoln Way to California Avenue before the Board in regard to petition for.the paving of Harrison Avemso Resolution Ordered prepared. Attorney Barry Scanlon appeared before the Board in regard to petition for pavement on the first alley Bast of St. Peter Street from Jefferson Blvd. to the first alley north. Resolution ordered. Building Commissioner Goo, A. Davis appeared before the Board and presented communication received from Mr R. U. Miller in regard to &rage being built in public allays - this`placedon file and referred to the City Aftonrey to see if this -man as�a title to this alley. Ger. A.Davis, South Bend, Ind. July 27-22 `Building Commissioner, ..South Bend, Ind. :Dear Sir:- Pursuant to your request that I furnihh you with data in support of.my claim that the parcel if ground on which I have erected a garage is ground beloning to mte, towit: Im lot No. 10 in the Sub -Division of Out Lot No. 1. of Hendricks & Grant's *ddition to South Bend as laid out and platted by Eliaabatt Kent, Luc Garrison and -Samuel Garrison, ;Rich lot No. 10 has a frontage of 63� feet on Mayrion Street, I submit the following:- First, I refer $ou to .the Plat of the First Nort4West Addition *f South Bend platted by John Hendricks and John Grant, which plat is dated May 3-1837 and &copy or saute is recorded in Plat Book No. 1. page 36 in the office of the Recorder of St. Joseph County, which see* and also see pencil sketch of so much there f as concerns the dubjest of this letter attached bvrete It wi be noted that this plat shows an alley immediately west of and adjoining lot Ns. 66of said mentioned plat which alley running north interested an alley (at rear of in Lot No. 10y which latter alley ran along the South Side of the Kankakee Yaee, both of which;the,latiAr alley and the race, have many years ago been; closed up and the,griund thrown into the lets of abutting owners, dwelling houses and other buildings crested thereon and otherwise improved: The west half of lot No. 66 is owned by Woe. Smith and Barbara Smith the complainants; 4esond I now refer you to said Kent & Garrison Sub -Division of Out Lot No. 1, above mentioned, which see, and also see lead pencil sketch of so mush thereof as soriserns the subject of: this letter attached hereto, which ,sub-Divisie n was laid out and platted Aug. 13-1881. in plat Book 4 Page 16, St. Josobh County Reoords,and ask you to note that the portion of the sane containing in Lot No. 10 imediately abuts and ad joins the , portion' of said lot No. 66 owned' ` by said Smiths without reserving or creating any alley whatsoever. At the time of platting said Sub -Division said Kents and'. Garrisons owned lot 66, the alleyshown on said original North west Addition as, abutting.the west side of it, and of course said out Lot No;. 1. containing the present in Lot No. 10 now owned by undersigned. In Sub -Dividing the said Kents and garrisons s&w fit to ftt-the southeast,eorner of in Lot No, 10 at the southwest corner of in Lot No. 66 thereby throwing the 14 foot strip of ground, formerly shown as an alley, in said First North West Addition, Plat Book 1 Page 36, Bate In Lot No. 10 and making it a part of said in Lot No. 10. We call attention to the last named plat and ask you to note that the distance from the alley corner t the southwest corner of In Lot No. 11 isainnonly known as the Lumber Yard Alley to the southwest corner of In Lot No. 66 is onw hundred and thirteen feet (113) and that the frontage of In Lot No 11 is 49i feet and the frontage of In Lot No. 10 is 631 feet making 113 feet, thereby as stated, throwing the strip of ground in quest on into and making it a part of In Lot No. 10.