Northwestern Yeast Co. v. City of Chicago

The learned trial judge found at the time of the payment by defendant to plaintiff of the amount of the judgment plaintiff made no protest. The last expression of our Supreme Court on the nature of interest on a condemnation judgment, etc., is found in Blakeslee’s Storage Warehouses, Inc. v. City of Chicago, 369 Ill. 480. In that case suit was brought to recover interest on the amount of the judgment awarded in a condemnation proceeding. The suit was not brought until more than five years after the judgment was paid and the Supreme Court held the five-year Statute of Limitations barred the…