Hooper v. Finlay

Plaintiff in error filed a suit in ejectment against the defendants in error, L. M. Finlay and the South Park Commissioners, to obtain possession of the east thirty-two feet of lot 1 in Linden Grove subdivision, in the city of Chicago. The South Park Commissioners filed a plea setting up that they had filed in the circuit court of Cook county a petition to condemn said land for public use; that the plaintiff in error’s grantors were made defendants to the petition and were served with summons prior to the date on which plaintiff in error acquired his interest and that the cause proceeded to…