DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS & BLDGS. v. DIXON

Gen. No. 65-53.

68 Ill. App.2d 106 (1966)

215 N.E.2d 449

The Department of Public Works and Buildings of the State of Illinois, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Howard E. Dixon, et al. (Don Frey and Dorris Frey), Defendants-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Fifth District.

March 28, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William G. Clark, Attorney General, of Chicago (Harold G. Andrews and Richard E. Quinn, Special Assistant Attorneys General, of counsel), for appellant.

A.F. Melvin and Charles D. Winters, of Marion (R.W. Harris, of counsel), for appellees.


GOLDENHERSH, P.J.

Petitioner, the Department of Public Works and Buildings, appeals from the judgment of the Circuit Court of Williamson County in the amount of $16,000, entered upon a jury verdict in an action to condemn land owned by defendants, Don and Dorris Frey. The jury found the value of the land taken to be $4,000, and the damage to land not taken to be $12,000.

The evidence shows that defendants owned a 115 acre farm, that petitioner took 16.08 acres...

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