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DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS & BLDGS. v. LANKFORD

Gen. No. 10,656.

65 Ill. App.2d 133 (1965)

212 N.E.2d 14

The Department of Public Works and Buildings of the State of Illinois for and in Behalf of the People of the State of Illinois, Petitioners-Appellees, v. Kern Lankford, et al., Defendants. Kern Lankford and Vera Lankford, Defendants-Appellants.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Fourth District.

November 24, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Busch, Harrington & Porter, of Champaign, for appellants.

William G. Clark, Attorney General, of Springfield (Thos. C. Stifler, III, of Danville, and Richard E. Quinn, of Springfield, Special Assistant Attorneys General, of counsel), for appellee.

CRAVEN, J.

This appeal is brought from a judgment of the circuit court of Vermilion County based upon a jury verdict awarding compensation in the amount of $87,125 for land taken by the State of Illinois pursuant to its power of eminent domain. The subject of this suit concerned the value of 7.28 acres taken from a tract of 8.89 acres and the damage done to the remainder.

The defendants-appellants raise three...

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