Sanitary District of Chicago v. Manasse

Appellee, The Sanitary District of Chicago, is a municipal corporation organized under “An act to create Sanitary Districts and to remove obstructions in the Des Plaines and Illinois Rivers,” approved May 29, 1889. 111. Rev. Stat. 1941, chap. 42, par. 320.

By an order entered in eminent domain proceedings brought by appellee in the superior court of Cook county, on January 21, 1912,. it acquired the land the title to which is involved in this suit. That order purports to give to appellee the right to “enter upon and take possession of and to take, use, have and enjoy the fee of” the land…