Forest Preserve District v. Draper

Appellee, Forest Preserve District of Cook county, filed a petition in the circuit court of said county, to condemn an irregular shaped tract of land out of the southwest corner of a sixty-acre farm belonging to appellant, Charles W. Draper, and also a strip fifty feet wide off the south side of said sixty-acre tract leading from the western terminus of Montrose avenue, in Chicago, to said irregular shaped tract, and a similar strip off the west side of the sixty acres leading from the irregular shaped tract to the southern terminus of East River road. When taken, the entire land sought to be…