Forest Preserve District v. Caraher
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Jesse A. Baldwin, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Cartwright
The appellant filed in the circuit court of Cook county its petition to ascertain the compensation to be paid for 393.73 acres of land lying between One Hundred and Eleventh street and One Hundred and Nineteenth street, about twenty-two miles southwest of the Chicago court house, to be taken for the uses of the forest preserve district. A jury fixed the compensation at $159,448.50, or about $406 an acre, and the court entered judgment on the verdict.
There were about 122.73 acres of fertile, tillable land and 271 acres of forest, covered with native trees of good size and different varieties.…
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