Department of Public Works & Buildings v. Porter

The Department of Public Works and Buildings of the State of Illinois filed a petition in the county court of Macon county in vacation, seeking to obtain by eminent domain a right of way across certain land the title to which is involved in this appeal, to construct Route 2 of the Illinois durable hard road system. May O. Porter and forty-four other persons, being the children and grandchildren of Ezekiel Prescott, and their spouses, were made defendants to the petition. The land sought to be condemned had formerly been owned by Prescott. On March 8, 1902, Prescott, and Mary, his wife,…