City of Chicago v. Roth

Appellants, Mathias Becker and Minnie Becker, his wife, were the owners of a lot 25 feet wide and 125 feet deep, fronting on North Western avenue, in Chicago. On this property was a two-story brick building. On April 23, 1925, the city of Chicago filed its petition in the superior court of Cook county to condemn a strip 17 feet wide off of the front end of this lot for the widening of North Western avenue between Fullerton avenue and Belmont avenue. The strip condemned included two feet of the front of the building. The proceedings were under the Local Improvement act of 1897 as amended. On…