Sanitary District of Chicago v. Munger

The Sanitary District of Chicago filed its petition .in the superior court of Cook county to condemn forty-one separate tracts of land for canal purposes. Jacob Glos, Emma J. Glos and August A. Timke, who were alleged to claim some interest in some of the tracts, were made defendants to the petition. They appeared and severally made motions to dismiss the petition. Without any formal disposition of the motions an order was entered requiring them to file cross-petitions or such other papers as they might be advised were necessary and proper in their claim of title or interest in the property,…