Illinois Power & Light Corp. v. Cooper

The Illinois Power and Light Corporation filed a petition on January 27, 1925, in the county court of Warren county for the purpose of condemning an easement for the construction, maintenance, operation and repair of a high-power electric transmission line from the Keokuk dam to Monmouth and Galesburg. The petition described a number of tracts over which it was desired to construct the line, but it was dismissed as to the owners of all but eight of the tracts before the trial. From the judgment which authorized the petitioner to enter upon the several tracts of land upon payment on or before…