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ANDREWS v. CITY OF SPRINGFIELD

Gen. No. 10,586.

56 Ill. App.2d 201 (1965)

205 N.E.2d 798

Leon B. Andrews, et al., Plaintiffs, v. City of Springfield, Illinois; John H. Hunter, as Commissioner of Public Property of the City of Springfield, Illinois; Township of Woodside, Sangamon County, Illinois; Harry D. Mullen, as Highway Commissioner of Woodside Township, Sangamon County, Illinois; Township of Ball, Sangamon County, Illinois; Edsel F. Gilreath, as Highway Commissioner of Ball Township, Sangamon County, Illinois; Township of Rochester, Sangamon County, Illinois; O.J. Taylor, as Highway Commissioner of Rochester Township, Sangamon County, Illinois, Defendants. City of Springfield Illinois, Counter-Plaintiff, v. Township of Woodside, Sangamon County, Illinois; Harry D. Mullen, as Highway Commissioner of Woodside Township, Sangamon County, Illinois; Township of Ball, Sangamon County, Illinois; Edsel F. Gilreath, as Highway Commissioner of Ball Township, Sangamon County, Illinois; Township of Rochester, Sangamon County, Illinois; O.J. Taylor, as Highway Commissioner of Rochester Township, Sangamon County, Illinois, Counter-Defendants. City of Springfield, Illinois, Defendant-Counter Plaintiff-Appellant, and John H. Hunter, as Commissioner of Public Property of the City of Springfield, Illinois, Defendant-Appellant, v. Leon B. Andrews, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, and Harry D. Mullen, as Highway Commissioner of Woodside Township, Sangamon County, Illinois; Paul Bancroft, as Highway Commissioner of Ball Township, Sangamon County, Illinois; and Raymond Ramsey, as Highway Commissioner of Rochester Township, Sangamon County, Illinois, Defendants-Counter Defendants-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Fourth District.

April 5, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

I.J. Feuer, of Springfield, for appellants.

Brunsman and Giffin, of Springfield (Clell L. Woods, of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellees.

R. Garrett Phillips and Paul F. Wanless, of Springfield, for defendants-appellees and counter-defendants-appellees.

EBERSPACHER, P.J.

In 1930, the City of Springfield acquired a large area of land located in part of each of three Sangamon County Townships (Ball, Rochester and Woodside) and commenced the construction thereon of an artificial lake known as Lake Springfield, for the creation of a system of waterworks and water supply. As the lake developed, the City laid out the marginal shorelands owned by it adjacent to the lake, into areas and tracts of land and began leasing such...

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