Department of Transportation v. Western National Bank

This is a direct appeal from an interlocutory order of the circuit court of Lake County. The original case, a condemnation suit filed by the Department of Transportation in 1972, was previously before this court in Department of Transportation v. Western National Bank, 63 Ill. 2d 179. Upon remand, the circuit court granted the State’s motion to dismiss the defendants’ amended cross-petition, but certified certain questions for immediate appeal. Because the issues raised in the court’s order pertain to matters which were before us in the first case, we granted the defendants’ motion to…