Board of Trustees v. Timpone

This eminent domain proceeding was brought by the Trustees of the University of Illinois to acquire a city lot at 605 East Daniel Street in Champaign. The defendant owners, Raymond and Alma Timpone, filed a cross petition alleging that they owned the adjoining lot at 603 East Daniel Street and seeking to recover for damage to that lot. Ray-Dea, Inc., filed a petition for leave to intervene as a defendant. The intervening petition alleged that RayDea, Inc. is the tenant of the adjoining lot, under a written lease from the original defendants, and that it had an interest in the lot taken, in…