Gage v. City of Chicago

The city of Chicago passed an ordinance for the opening of Wright street, from Seventy-second street to Seventy-fourth street, and filed a petition in the circuit court, of Cook county to condemn certain property of appellant, Gage, and certain other property of James P. Mallette and Ralph E. Brownell, for the purposes of such street. The petition sought to condemn three pieces of land,—one a strip sixty-six feet wide in premises owned by appellant, and the other two being out-lot A and out-lot D, belonging to said Mallette and Brownell. Summons was issued and served personally on appellant…