DEPT. OF PUB. WKS. & BLDGS. v. KLEHM

No. 45427.

56 Ill.2d 121 (1973)

306 N.E.2d 1

THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND BUILDINGS, Appellee, v. CARL G. KLEHM et al. — (Lee N. Romano et al., Appellants.)

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied January 29, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Concannon, Dillon, Snook & Morton, of Chicago (William R. Dillon and John B. Dillon, of counsel), for appellants.

William J. Scott, Attorney General, of Springfield (Calvert J. Gordon, Frank S. Righeimer, and Frank S. Righeimer, Jr., Special Assistant Attorneys General, of counsel), for appellee.


Judgment affirmed.

MR. JUSTICE WARD delivered the opinion of the court:

On July 8, 1968, the petitioner, the Department of Public Works and Buildings of the State of Illinois (the Department) brought an eminent domain proceeding in the circuit court of Cook County to acquire 20.65 acres of an 85.99-acre tract of land, which was located in northwest Cook County and which the petition alleged was to be used in the construction of an interstate highway. The owner...

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