FOREST PRESERVE DISTRICT OF COOK CTY. v. Wike

This is an appeal by Lester J. Morand and Harold Engstrom, as trustees, seeking to review a judgment of the circuit court of Cook County authorizing appellee to take from the appellants certain premises located in the city of Chicago, on payment of judgments rendered in condemnation.

The Forest Preserve District filed its petition to condemn on October 13, 1950. Lester J. Morand and Harold Engstrom, the owners, as trustees, of premises designated as parcel No. 5, filed a traverse in the nature of an.amended motion to dismiss. Gus Neubauer, the owner of parcel No. 8, also filed a traverse.

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