Beneficial Development Corp. v. City of Highland Park

Plaintiffs, Beneficial Development Corporation, Tennyson Development Corporation, and Betty Holst, brought suit in the circuit court of Lake County against defendants, the City of Highland Park and Shaf Home Builders, Inc., for a declaration of rights that a recapture agreement entered into between defendants could not be enforced against plaintiffs. Plaintiffs further alleged in a separate count that defendants constructed a street that encroached on property owned by plaintiffs, and that this encroachment was an unlawful conversion of their property. In the unlawful-conversion count,…