DEPT. OF CONSERVATION v. LAWLESS

Nos. 80-573, 80-477 cons.

100 Ill. App.3d 74 (1981)

426 N.E.2d 545

THE DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION, Plaintiff-Appellee and Cross-Appellant v. LAWRENCE LAWLESS, Defendant-Appellant and Cross-Appellee. — LAWRENCE LAWLESS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. DAVID KENNEY, Director of Conservation, Illinois Department of Conservation, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Third District.

Rehearing denied October 14, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tyrone C. Fahner, Attorney General, of Springfield (Roy Frazier, Assistant Attorney General, and Thomas Feehan, Special Assistant Attorney General, of counsel), for appellant.

Raymond A. Feeley, of Kozlowski, Polito & Feeley, of Joliet, and Lawrence Lawless, pro se of Chicago, for appellee.


Affirmed in part, and reversed in part and remanded.

Mr. JUSTICE HEIPLE delivered the opinion of the court:

This consolidated appeal involves the Department of Conservation's (the Department) attempt to purchase the residence and surrounding four acres of Lawrence Lawless, which is located in Will County. Two lawsuits resulted. In the first, Lawless as plaintiff, sought a writ of mandamus ordering the Department's director to purchase the property by...

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