South Park Commissioners v. Dunlevy
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. W. K. McAllister, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Craig
This was a proceeding, instituted in the circuit court of Cook county, by the South Park .Commissioners, for the condemnation of two certain tracts of land, containing twenty acres each, for park purposes.
The petition in the case was filed on the 18th day of April, 1873, but the trial which resulted in the judgment under consideration was not begun until the 18th day of December, 1876, and was not concluded until January 8, 1877, when a verdict was rendered, in which the value of one tract of land was estimated at $74,783.41, and the value of the other tract at $49,856.20.
The commissioners…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- City of Chicago v. BarbianIllinois Supreme Court · 1875
- St. Louis & Southeastern Railway Co. v. TetersIllinois Supreme Court · 1873
- Cook v. South Park CommissionersIllinois Supreme Court · 1871
- City of Chicago v. AllcockIllinois Supreme Court · 1877
- Illinois & St. Louis Railroad v. McClintockIllinois Supreme Court · 1873
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- Welton v. Iowa State Highway CommissionSupreme Court of Iowa · 1930
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