South Park Commissioners v. Livingston

On October 21, 1927, appellee, the South Park Commissioners, under an ordinance passed September 21, 1927, filed its petition in the circuit court of Cook county to condemn for park purposes 6.44 acres of land, including the property at 3735 Vernon avenue, in Chicago, the legal title to which was in Peter R. Boylan. The property was on the east side of the street between Thirty-seventh street and Thirty-eighth street. The lot was 35 feet wide and was improved with a two-story brick duplex flat-building. The petition was for the condemnation of the north half of the lot and the north half of…