Opinion

Kane v. City of Chicago

  • 392 Ill. 172
  • 64 N.E.2d 506
  • 1945 Ill. LEXIS 421
Court
Illinois Supreme Court
Filed
Nov 21, 1945
Status
Published
On the bench
Mr. CHIEF JUSTICE THOMPSON delivered the opinion of the court:
Cited by
36 cases

“The measure of damages is the depreciation in the market value of the property as a whole, caused by a direct physical disturbance of some right incident to its ownership.”

How later courts described this case

  • “The measure of damages is the depreciation in the market value of the property as a whole, caused by a direct physical disturbance of some right incident to its ownership.”

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

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