River Park District v. Brand

Per Curiam :

The River Park District, a municipal corporation of Chicago, by its commissioners, filed a petition in the county court of Cook county on June 12, 1925, to condemn for park purposes five and a fraction acres of land in the city of Chicago belonging to Virgil M. Brand. No objection was made to the form of the petition or to the right and power of the petitioner to condemn the land for park purposes. Just compensation for the land was fixed by the verdict of the jury and the judgment of the court at $57,689.75. Besides Brand, the owner of the land, lessees Mathew Hermes and Julius…