City of Chicago v. Rosehill Cemetery Co.

Plaintiff in error, the city of Chicago, on November i, 1927, filed in the superior court of Cook county a petition asking that steps be taken to ascertain the compensation to be made for private property to be taken and damaged in making a local improvement by opening up Balmoral avenue between Bowmanville avenue and Western avenue, in said city, and also that steps be taken to levy a special assessment for said improvement. The commissioners’ report showed that property owned by defendant in error, the Rose-hill Cemetery Company, was to be taken for the improvement. The cemetery company…