Department of Public Works & Buildings v. Roehrig

Mr. JUSTICE GEORGE J. MORAN

delivered the opinion of the court:

The petitioner, the Illinois Department of Public Works and Buildings, appeals from a judgment of the circuit court of St. Clair County which awarded the defendant, Earl Roehrig, $165,000 in a condemnation suit as just compensation for 13.78 acres of his land.

The principal questions in this appeal are whether Illinois civil procedure allows the use of a motion in limine to prevent the offering of inadmissible evidence at trial, and whether a circuit court’s error in granting a landowner the right to open and to close a condemnation…