City of Edwardsville v. County of Madison

The city of Edwardsville attempted to condemn for a street a strip of land through the Madison county poor farm, consisting of nineteen acres, within the corporate limits of the city. On motion of the county of Madison the court dismissed the petition, and this appeal presents the question of the right of the municipality to condemn for public use the property of a county used for public purposes connected with the administration of the State government.

The right of eminent domain is the power of the State to appropriate private property to the public use, and it extends to every kind of…