Department of Conservation v. Aspegren Financial Corp.

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE RECHENMACHER

delivered the opinion of the court:

This is a condemnation case. The jury awarded the defendant, Aspegren Financial Corporation, $275,272, or about $1,710 per acre, as just compensation for its property. Aspegren appeals from this verdict as being inadequate and alleges the trial court erred as follows: (1) in allowing the State to introduce into evidence the purchase price paid by Aspegren when it bought the land in question in December 1970. (The condemnation petition was filed in July of 1974, about 3½ years later.); (2) in permitting the State to show as…