Chicago Housing Authority v. Lámar

The Chicago Housing Authority, on September 23, 1959, filed suit under the Eminent Domain Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1957, chap. 47), to condemn 32 parcels of land on the near south side of Chicago for development and erection of a low-rent housing project. The petition included parcel 80, known as 4008 South Federal Street, Chicago, and named as defendants the owner of record, the Southmoor Bank and Trust Company (now Guaranty Bank & Trust Company), as trustee, and persons otherwise interested, among them Charles J. Anderson and Hattie Lee Anderson. On March 25, i960, the day set for trial,…