City of Mound City v. Mason
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the County Court of Pulaski county; the Hon. Willard P. Ellis, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1915.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Boggs
This is an appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Pulaski county in favor of appellee and against appellant for $550 attorneys’ fees, and $23.75 personal expenses, growing out of a condemnation suit filed by appellant against appellee for the condemnation of certain lands belonging to appellee, for the purpose of obtaining earth to raise and strengthen the levee system of the City of Mound City.
Said suit was tried in the County Court by a jury, and resulted in a judgment assessing compensation in favor of appellee here, from which judgment he took an appeal to the Supreme Court and…
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