PEOPLE EX REL. WORDELL v. CITY OF CHICAGO

No. 77-296.

67 Ill. App.3d 321 (1978)

384 N.E.2d 894

THE PEOPLE ex rel. ROBERT T. WORDELL et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. THE CITY OF CHICAGO et al., Defendants-Appellants.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District (3rd Division).

Opinion filed December 13, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William R. Quinlan, Corporation Counsel, of Chicago (Daniel Pascale and Edmund Hatfield, Assistant Corporation Counsel, and Maureen Kelly, law student, of counsel), for appellants.

Nolan, O'Malley and Dunne, of Chicago (Patrick W. Dunne and Michael J. Fogarty, of counsel), for appellees.


Order reversed.

Mr. JUSTICE JIGANTI delivered the opinion of the court:

The plaintiffs, Robert and Lillian Wordell, owned two adjoining lots in the City of Chicago, Illinois, which they divided into three lots. They applied for a building permit from the City of Chicago to construct a house on one of the lots resulting from this division. The city, through its commissioner of buildings, Joseph T. Fitzgerald...

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