Tedens v. Sanitary District
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of DuPage county; the Hon. Henry B. Willis, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Craig
This was a proceeding instituted by the Sanitary District of Chicago to condemn certain lands of appellants constituting a part of Sag Island. The island is a strip of land extending north-east and south-west between the channel of the Des-Plaines river on the north and west, and the Illinois and Michigan canal on the south and east, located about two miles north-east of the village of Lamont, in Cook county. The strip of land was over two miles long and averaged about fourteen hundred feet wide. The petitioner sought to condemn the entire tract.
The petition was presented to one of the judges…
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