County of Jackson v. Wayman

The county of Jackson brought suit for the use of the People under the Eminent Domain act to acquire a right of way for the construction of a State-aid road across the farm of Ernest Wayman. Wayman filed a cross-petition seeking damages for injuries to the remainder of his land. The jury returned a verdict for $511 and Wayman has appealed directly to this court under the provisions of section 12 of the act. Ill. Rev. Stat. 1937, chap. 47, par. 12.

The right of way sought to be condemned consists of a 2.38-acre strip cutting across Wayman’s one hundred-acre farm leaving nine and one-half acres…