FOREST PRESERVE DIST. OF WILL COUNTY v. VANDERLAAN

No. 3-91-0254.

589 N.E.2d 599 (1992)

226 Ill. App.3d 692

168 Ill.Dec. 199

FOREST PRESERVE DISTRICT OF WILL COUNTY, a Body Corporate and Politic, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. James VANDERLAAN & Deborah M. Vanderlaan, Husband and Wife and Unknown Owners, Defendants-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois, Third District.

Rehearing Denied April 28, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph H. Singer, argued, Kroesch & Kavanagh Law Office, Ltd., Joliet, for Forest Preserve Dist.

Thomas R. Wilson, argued, Herschbach, Tracy, Johnson, Bertani & Wilson, Joliet, for James Vanderlaan and Deborah M. Vanderlaan.


Justice BARRY delivered the Opinion of the Court.

Plaintiff, the Forest Preserve District of Will County (the District), appeals from a judgment of the circuit court of Will County dismissing its condemnation complaint. For reasons that follow, we reverse.

The action on appeal was filed on June 16, 1989, and named defendants James and Deborah M. Vanderlaan and unknown others as the owners of a 24.8-acre parcel of land within the boundaries of the Forest Preserve...

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