Department of Public Works & Buildings v. Challand

Appellee, the Department of Public Works and Buildings, filed a petition in the county court of DeKalb county against George PI. Challand and others to condemn certain land for highway purposes, including approximately seven acres belonging to William Spray and Maude R. Spray, appellants. The land sought to be taken is to be used as a part of the right of way for State Bond Issue Route 71, described as “beginning at Aurora and extending in a westerly direction to an intersection with Route No. 70, affording Aurora, Sugar Grove, Big Rock, Hinckley, Waterman, Shabbona and the intervening…