DEPT. OF PUBLIC WORKS & BLDGS. v. MABEE

No. 36179.

22 Ill.2d 202 (1961)

174 N.E.2d 801

THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND BUILDINGS, Appellant, v. EMELINE MABEE et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed May 19, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

WILLIAM G. CLARK, Attorney General, of Springfield, (WILLIAM C. WINES, RAYMOND S. SARNOW, A. ZOLA GROVES, and THEODORE G. MAHERAS, Assistant Attorneys General, of counsel,) for appellant.

HEIPLE & HEIPLE, of Washington, for appellees.


Reversed and remanded.

Mr. JUSTICE HOUSE delivered the opinion of the court:

The question presented by this appeal is whether an abutting property owner may recover damages to property not taken allegedly caused by a traffic regulation restricting access to his property to one direction.

The county court of Woodford County rendered judgment on the verdict of a jury awarding to defendants, Emeline Mabee and Eugene R. Mabee, the sums of $905 for property...

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