Corn Belt Bank v. Cellini

This appeal is from an order of the court dismissing a petition for a writ of mandamus to compel the defendant to institute condemnation proceedings with respect to plaintiff’s property adjacent to which the defendant had constructed a viaduct for the improvement of a State highway.

The property in issue, owned by the Com Belt Bank as trustee under a land trust, is located in Bloomington and is improved with a large warehouse consisting of four stories and a basement and was occupied by four business tenants at the time the petition was filed. The petition alleged that there had been…