Sanitary District of Rockford v. Johnson

This is an appeal by John A. Johnson from a judgment for the condemnation of 50 acres of his land on the petition of appellee, the Sanitary District of Rockford.

The Sanitary District of Rockford was duly organized under the statute and planned and surveyed a system of sewers, intercepting sewers and outlets, with a treatment and sewage disposal plant therefor. In order to complete this improvement and to properly treat the sewage collected from said system it became necessary for the district to acquire as and for a site for the treatment and sewage disposal plant certain real estate that…