Village of Oak Lawn v. Commonwealth Edison Co.

This appeal concerns the issue of who will pay the $34,000 cost of temporarily relocating electric transmission lines at two intersections in Oak Lawn. Relocation is necessary to permit construction of a relief sewer designed to prevent flooding in Oak Lawn and some neighboring communities. Oak Lawn, by ordinance, required that Commonwealth Edison pay for the relocation of its transmission lines. Commonwealth Edison initially refused, contending that the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago (MSD) should bear the cost. Oak Lawn, MSD, and the construction company (Kenny…