Department of Public Works & Buildings v. McNeal

This eminent domain proceeding was filed by the Department of Public Works and Buildings for condemnation of an additional strip of land adjacent to an existing highway from two adjoining farms. The Department filed a motion for immediate vesting of title. The defendants sought a dismissal of the petition, or in the alternative, asked that a bridge be so constructed as to permit defendants to use it as an underpass and that the court provide for different points of access than those provided by the plans. The circuit court of Rock Island County found that the Department had authority to…