Department of Transportation v. Kennels

The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) appeals an order of the circuit court which allowed Carriage Hills Kennels (Carriage Hills) to recover from IDOT the attorney fees it expended in defending a condemnation action, as well as interest at the rate of 10% per annum on the unpaid compensation from the time of the taking until the time judgment was entered. Carriage Hills cross-appeals the trial court’s exclusion of $8,450.49 expended for expert appraisers and other costs and asks this court to reinstate the excluded expenses as part of its just compensation.

Before considering the…