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

No. 12105.

19 Ill. App.3d 351 (1974)

311 N.E.2d 408

THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND BUILDINGS, Petitioner-Appellee, v. HAZEL F. BRACKEMYRE et al., Respondents — (WALTER BOWMAN et al., Respondents-Appellants.)

Appellate Court of Illinois — Fourth District.

May 8, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Summers, Watson & Kimpel and Engert & Sinder, both of Champaign, for appellants.

William J. Scott, Attorney General, of Champaign (William P. Ryan, Assistant Attorney General, and James L. Capel, Jr., Special Assistant Attorney General, of counsel), for appellee.


Judgment affirmed.

Mr. JUSTICE CRAVEN delivered the opinion of the court:

A petition was filed on October 4, 1965, in the circuit court of Champaign County on behalf of the State of Illinois, to condemn 17.11 acres of defendants' land for the construction of Interstate Highway 74. Defendants filed a cross-petition, alleging the remainder of their property would be damaged by the taking. The cause was tried by a jury, which fixed compensation to the property...

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