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DEPT. OF PUBLIC WORKS v. FINKS

No. 33467.

10 Ill.2d 20 (1956)

139 N.E.2d 242

THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND BUILDINGS, Appellee, v. FRANK A. FINKS et al. — (FELICITE OGLESBY CENCI et al., Appellants.)

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied January 23, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

SORLING, CATRON AND HARDIN, of Springfield, for appellants.

LATHAM CASTLE, Attorney General, of Springfield, (MARK O. ROBERTS, of counsel,) for appellee.

Reversed and remanded.

Mr. JUSTICE SCHAEFER delivered the opinion of the court:

In 1944 a large segment of Route 66 was designated by the Department of Public Works and Buildings as a freeway, pursuant to the Freeway Act. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1955, chap. 121, pars. 335, 336, 337.) Thereafter this eminent domain proceeding was instituted in the circuit court of Logan County to acquire certain land and to extinguish or limit the rights of access, air, light and...

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