East Side Levee & Sanitary District v. East St. Louis & Carondelet Railway
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the County Court of St. Clair county; the Hon. Joseph B. Messicic, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Carter
This was a proceeding brought by the appellant sanitary district in the county court of St. Clair county to condemn certain property of the appellee railway in that county. The case was submitted to the trial court on a stipulation of facts, a jury being waived. Judgment was entered in favor of appellee in the sum of $78,910, and this appeal followed.
The petition for condemnation alleges the appellant district, by ordinance duly passed and in accordance with plans and specifications attached to said petition, contemplated the improvement of Prairie du Pont creek by the construction of a main…
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