Village of Dolton v. Malin
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action to Recover the Value of Real Estate, taken for a street. Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. Farlin Q. Ball, Judge presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Adams
The plaintiffs filed a declaration in which they aver, in substance, that they are the owners of a piece of ground in Cook County, Illinois (describing it), and that the defendant, the Village of Bolton, by its board of trustees, to wit, August 9, 1898, passed an ordinance providing for the appropriation and use by said village of the east thirty-three feet of said premises for public purposes, and that said village, by its duly constituted officers, took possession of said thirty-three feet and graded it as a street, and thereby appropriated it to public use, without compensation to…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Piper v. ConnellyIllinois Supreme Court · 1884
- Town of Brushy Mound v. McClintockIllinois Supreme Court · 1893
- Nevitt v. WoodburnIllinois Supreme Court · 1898
- Goodkind v. BartlettIllinois Supreme Court · 1891
- Cox v. Commissioners of HighwaysAppellate Court of Illinois · 1901