People Ex Rel. Marbro Corp. v. Ramsey

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Cook County denying the relator’s petition for a writ of mandamus.

The relator Marbro Corporation is the owner of real estate at 58-64 West Randolph Street, Chicago, Illinois, improved with a 17-story office and theatre building, known as the Garrick Theatre Building. The building was designed in the early 1890’s by Louis Sullivan, a famous Chicago architect, and was completed in 1893. The relator Atlas Wrecking Company entered into a contract with Marbro under which Atlas agreed to wreck the building.

On June 1, 1960, the relators…