CITY OF BLOOMINGTON v. QUINN

Gen. No. 11,078.

114 Ill. App.2d 145 (1969)

252 N.E.2d 10

City of Bloomington, a Municipal Corporation, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Elmo Quinn, Leona M. Quinn, Walter L. Benson, Rose S. Benson, Industrial Casualty Insurance Company, Diamond Johnson and Mary Johnson, Interstate Bond Company, Harold S. Shoel, et al., Defendants, Walter L. Benson and Rose S. Benson, Defendants-Appellants.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Fourth District.

Rehearing denied November 13, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Costigan & Wollrab, of Bloomington (James Wollrab and William A. Allison, of counsel), for appellants.

DePew, Grimes & DePew, of Bloomington (James R. DePew and Joseph W. DePew, of counsel), for appellee.


MILLS, J.

This is a condemnation case and the sole question on review is whether or not discovery procedures apply in condemnation cases.

The facts are simple: during the course of an urban renewal project, appellee city sought to obtain the real estate of appellants, and offered them $6,380; this offer was refused and condemnation proceedings ensued; during the course of pretrial procedures, appellants sought discovery in the form of names and addresses of...

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