Trustees of Schools v. Hoyt

The trustees of schools of township No. 19, north, range 10, east of the third principal meridian, in Champaign county, and the board of education of the St. Joseph Community High School District No. 305, in Champaign county, filed a petition in the county court of that county to condemn for a school house site a tract of land owned by Norman C. Hoyt. On a trial the jury fixed the compensation to be paid at $4900, and a judgment was rendered authorizing the school district to take possession of the land upon the payment of that sum, from which the land owner appealed.

The appellant objected to…