South Park Commissioners v. Trustees of Schools

This was a petition in the circuit court of Cook county, filed by the South Park Commissioners in March, 1881, to condemn a certain lot in the town of Hyde Park, owned by the trustees of schools of township 38. Under the act creating the South Park Commissioners the corporation was authorized to take lands within certain limits for park purposes, and to acquire title, by gift, condemnation or otherwise. It was agreed on the trial that the lot in question had a frontage of 186 feet on South Park avenue, north line 216 feet, south line 1S6|- feet, contents of the lot of an acre. It was also…