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PEOPLE GAS LIGHT & COKE CO. v. BUCKLES

No. 36841.

24 Ill.2d 520 (1962)

182 N.E.2d 169

PEOPLES GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANY, Appellee, v. ROSCOE C. BUCKLES et. al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied May 23, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

WEBBER, BALBACH & THIES, of Urbana, for appellants.

ROSS, McGOWAN & O'KEEFE, of Chicago, and BARTH, PHILIPS, PHEBUS & TUMMELSON, of Urbana, (CLARENCE H. ROSS, JOSEPH M. WELLS, PHILIP A. McKINSEY, and DARIUS E. PHEBUS, of counsel,) for appellee.

Judgment affirmed.

Mr. JUSTICE SOLFISBURG delivered the opinion of the court:

This matter involves a suit by the plaintiff gas corporation to condemn a subsurface geological strata under the land owned by the defendants for the purpose of storing gas underground. The condemnation suit did not seek the fee-simple title to the property but only the right to inject and withdraw gas from the St. Peter geological formation lying under the 160 acres of the defendants...

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