Goldman v. Zimmer

This is an appeal from an order of the circuit court of Sangamon County granting the defendant’s post-trial motion for arrest of judgment and dismissing a petition for condemnation. The issue here for determination is the validity of the purported exercise of the power of eminent domain by the plaintiff board of education.

The petition for condemnation was filed in May of 1963. In it was the allegation that the plaintiffs were the members of the Board of Education of Springfield School District No. 186, that the same was a special charter school district, that there existed statutory authority…