Spohr v. City of Chicago
Illinois Supreme Court
• Appeal, from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Prank Baker, Judge, presiding. This is a proceeding to condemn certain property for the use of schools, brought by or under the auspices of the board of education in the city of Chicago. Several lots, owned by different persons, were sought to be condemned, and there were about eighteen respondents or defendants. The present appeal, however, was taken by the appellant, Spohr, alone.
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• Appeal, from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Prank Baker, Judge, presiding. This is a proceeding to condemn certain property for the use of schools, brought by or under the auspices of the board of education in the city of Chicago. Several lots, owned by different persons, were sought to be condemned, and there were about eighteen respondents or defendants. The present appeal, however, was taken by the appellant, Spohr, alone. Appellant’s property consisted of forty-four feet of ground on Sigel street, known as 128 and 130 Sigel street, and also a piece of ground twenty-two feet…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Magruder
First—The appellant, Charles Spohr, urges as a reason, why the judgment below should be reversed, that the court unduly restricted the cross-examination of a witness, introduced upon the trial below by the petitioner, or appellee, who testified in regard to the value of the property sought to be condemned. This witness, whose name was Mauritzon, testified, upon his direct examination, that he was a real estate agent, and had been engaged in that business in the city of Chicago for twenty years, and that the firm, of which he was a member, had, during that time, sold all kinds of property,…
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