Cook & Rathborne Co. v. Sanitary District
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the County Court of Cook county; the Hon. John H. Batten, Judge, presiding. This was a petition filed in the county court of Cook county by appellee, the Sanitary District of Chicago, to condemn a strip of land on the Chicago river. The land proposed to be taken contained about 8900 square feet, a part of which was submerged land.
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Appeal from the County Court of Cook county; the Hon. John H. Batten, Judge, presiding. This was a petition filed in the county court of Cook county by appellee, the Sanitary District of Chicago, to condemn a strip of land on the Chicago river. The land proposed to be taken contained about 8900 square feet, a part of which was submerged land. Henry A. DuPont was the owner of the property, but the appellant, the Cook & Rathborne Company, held a lease of a large tract of land from DuPont, of which the property sought to be condemned was a part. The Cook & Rathborne Company carried on a box…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Craig
The first or principal ground of reversal insisted upon by appellant is the admission in evidence by the trial court of the foregoing ordinance, section 208, by appellee, passed by the city council of the city of Chicago March 29, 1898. Previous to the introduction of this ordinance by appellee the appellant had introduced in evidence, in support of its cross-petition, section 668 of the Revised Code of the city of Chicago for the year 1897, for the purpose of showing that it could not utilize the space nearer. its box manufactory than one hundred feet because of this ordinance, and was…
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