CITY OF JACKSONVILLE v. PADGETT

No. 32472.

413 Ill. 189 (1952)

108 N.E.2d 460

THE CITY OF JACKSONVILLE, Appellee, v. LILLIAN PADGETT et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied November 17, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

HUGH J. GRAHAM, JR., of Springfield, for appellants.

WILLIAM L. FAY, City Attorney, of Jacksonville, for appellee.


Affirmed in part and reversed in part, and remanded.

Mr. JUSTICE BRISTOW delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendants appealed to the Appellate Court for the Third District from a declaratory judgment entered by the circuit court of Morgan County in favor of the plaintiff, city of Jacksonville, where the trial court held that a certain strip of ground approximately 21 1/2 feet wide was owned in fee simple by the city of Jacksonville and was not part of any...

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