Department of Public Works & Buildings v. Wolf

This was a proceeding in the circuit court of Peoria County to condemn the rights of access, ingress and egress to and over an existing right of way for the construction of a freeway, and to determine the damages accruing to the owners of adjacent properties pursuant to section 3 of the Freeways Act. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1951, chap. 121, par. 336.) This right of way had been acquired by the State of Illinois, by purchase several years prior to the filing of this petition to condemn, for a highway to be known as Federal Aid Route 172 with no abridgement of the benefits of the ordinary rights of…