City of Chicago v. Cunnea

The proceeding in the circuit court was under the Eminent Domain statute to acquire certain lots in Chicago for school purposes. The jury returned a verdict finding the value of each lot, and after motion by petitioner for a new trial was overruled, judgment was entered on the verdict and an appeal perfected to this court.

There is no controversy as to the location or character of the property involved nor its environment. Each is residence property, consisting of frame buildings with brick foundations, built more than thirty years before the trial. The ground as originally surveyed…