National Boulevard Bank v. Department of Transportation

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE LORENZ

delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiffs appeal from an order finding a 13.3-foot strip of their property to be a public highway by prescription as a result of having been used as a public way for vehicular traffic for 15 years, and denying plaintiff’s request for injunctive relief. On appeal, they contend the judgment is against the manifest weight of the evidence.

Plaintiffs as owners and beneficiaries of two adjoining tracts of land located at the southwest corner of Scott Street and Grand Avenue in the Village of Franklin Park filed their complaint for an…