Department of Public Works & Buildings v. Blackberry Union Cemetery

The Department of Public Works and Buildings of the State of Illinois in September of 1970, filed an action to condemn various parcels, including the 4.115 acres here involved, for highway purposes. The jury rendered directed verdicts (1) fixing the compensation for said tract at $37,000 and (2) allocating $3,335 of that sum to the value of the leasehold of the Pines Gravel Company therein. Only the Gravel Company appeals, contending that the court erroneously sustained objections to three different evidentiary items submitted by it. We disagree and affirm.

On August 1, 1968, LaVeme Raymond,…