Willis v. Menard County Board of Commissioners

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE STENGEL

delivered the opinion of the court:

After the defendant Menard County Board of Commissioners denied a special use permit for a limestone quarry to property owner Raymond Willis, he and the contract-purchaser of his property, Material Service Corporation, filed suit and obtained a judgment declaring that plaintiffs’ 300-acre farm may be used for open pit mining of limestone and related activities. The County Board appeals from that judgment order.

Plaintiff Willis contracted to sell 300 acres of farm land to Material Service Corporation for *2,150 per acre contingent…