09/12/1922 Board of Public Works Minutes

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42(1' Board met in regular session at 9:00 A.A. L. P. Hardy absent. Attorney G. A. Elliott at peared before the Board and presented petition for vacation of ai alley as follows: - To the Honorable Board of Public Forks, South Bend, Indiana. Gentlemen: - The undersigned petitioner respectfully shows to the Board thathe is the owner of the following pieces'of real estate both situated on Lincoln Way Test In the City of South Bend, Indiana, to )wi!,:. 10 A lot or "parcel of land having a frontage f forty • .(40) feet on Lincoln Way Test, taken off of and from the entire width of the Easterly ends of Lots numbered Twenty-five (25) and Twenty-seven (27) as shown on the recorded Plat of Witherill's Second Addition to the City of South Bend, which part is bounded by a line running as follows, via; Beginning at the point of the intersection of the southerly line of said -incoln Way West with the East line of paid Lot No. Twenty sven (27) thence running Northwesterly along the Southerly line of said Lincoln Way West, a distance of forty (40) feet; thence south parallel with the east easterly line of said Lots Nos. Twenty -Five (25) and Twenty seven (27) , a distance of seventy-nine and eight tenths (79.8) feet to the Southerly li a of said Lot ARo. Twenty-five (25) ; thence South Easterly along said d, southerly line of said Lot No. Twenty-five (25), a distance of forty (40) feet to the Southeasterly corner of said Lot No. Twenty-five (25); thence north seventy nine and eight tenths (79.6) feet to the place of beginning. 2. A part of Lot No. One (1) as shown on the recorded plat of Rockstroh and Nickel's .Addition to the City of South Bend, bounded by a line running as follows: Beginning atht north west corner of said Lot No. One (1); thence running south on the west line of said Lot, a distance of One Hundred Twenty (20) feet; thence east forty two and seventy four and one half hundreths (42.74) feet to the east line of said Lot, thence north on said East line to tho northeast cornerof said Lot: thence Northwesterly on the Northerly line of said lot a distance of forty-six (46) feet to the place of beginning. That on -the 3rd. day of-March,1875, the toFmer owners of the property Described as No. One (1)'above recorded a plat of said land known as the 0. S. Witherill 2nd.�Addition to the City of South Bend, which plat lays out and dedicates to public use as an alley, a strip o land seven and one-half.(71) links wide taken off and from the entire east end of Lots Twenty-three (23) twenty-flve_-(�5) and Twenty-seven(27) of said plat As shown of Plat Book Three(3) Page forty three (43). That the paccels described above and owned by this petitioner are situated on either side of the bove strip named for alley purposes in said plat,.and the strip divides about equally the property of eighty -six (86) feet frontage on Lincoln Way West of this petitioner. T is petitioner desires to build an the property adjoining and definite action nnot be taken until the disposal of the Four and Ninety-five hundreths (4 95) feet referred to has been taken., Pet,ition&r would further sho',V that the four and ninety-five hundreths (4.96) feet has never been used for alley purposes, an the same is not available for alley purposes because of its width. That all of the lots in the Block bounded by Lincoln Way West on the North Harrison Avenue on the Fast and Sherman Avenue on the Test, Fuerbringer Street on the South are all so situated and have access to streets and alleys having the necessary widths to be used at the present time. Wherefore, this petitioner now asks this Board that the strip of land described In the 0. S. Witherill 2nd. Addition Plat, being seven and one half (71) links in width running North and SouiA taken off the mire East ends of lots twenty-three (23), twenty five (25) and ?'wenty-seven (27) of said plat be vacated, and that the necessary resolution be adopted conforming to that purpose, FILED LEWIS KVTOUSE ` SEPT. 1291922. Petitioner, BOARD OF PUBLIC WRKS BY L. B. SLAUGHTER above petitioner. Board agreed to make a trip of investigation in regard to