Chicago Land Clearance Commission v. Rosenau

This appeal presents but a single issue, namely did the trial court act improperly in denying leave to appellant, Florence Kostner, to file a traverse to a petition to condemn three vacant parcels of property owned by her. Chronologically we will outline the proceedings in the court below: the petition to condemn was filed on April 2, 1953; appellant’s appearancé was entered by a competent firm of lawyers on May 14, 1953; on September 14, 1953, on a preliminary call of the condemnation calendar, October 1, 1953, was fixed as the date for a pretrial conference for the purpose of ascertaining…