South Park Commissioners v. Ayer

This was a proceeding commenced in the circuit court of Cook county on the third day of July, 1907, by the appellee, the South Park Commissioners, against the appellants, the property owners, to condemn for park purposes the south two-thirds of the half block situated between Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth streets, in the city of Chicago, which property fronts west upon LaSalle street and abuts in the rear upon a ten-foot alley which adjoins the elevated right of way of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company and other railroad companies. The case has been tried twice. On the…