Condemning Land For Parks

Henning Property and Cat Hole Property.

Petitions were filed

By the City in the Circuit Court Saturday | Asking for a Jury to Award Damages

Two lengthy petitions were filed in the county clerks office Saturday by City Attorney Sawyer to condemn land for the city of Ann Arbor.

The first petition is to condemn the land owned by Edwin Henning which is described as Block 18 of Ormsby and Page's addition, being bounded south by the Michigan Central right of way, on the west and north by Broadway and on the south and east by the west line of State street as originally platted.

The other petition is to condemn the land about and including the cathole. The land this sought to be condemned is Lot D, Block 3, R. S. Smith's 3rd addition, part of which is owned by Marion M. Wheelock, John Mathews, mortgagee and part by Wm. A. Moseley and Sarah his wife; Lots 1 and 2 in Block 2 south Range 13 east, owned by the estate of John Laughlin, Horace G. Prettyman and Jennie, his wife, also claiming to be owners; Lots 3, 4 and 5 in Block south, Range 13 east, and land lying east of it to the east line of the west 1/2 of the northwest 1/4 of Section 28, Town 2 south, Range 6 east, of which the estate of George Lant, Sr., and Horace G. Prettyman and wife both claim to be owners, and lot 114 of R. S. Smith's third addition, owned by the estate of Sylvia E. Smith. 

The city asks that summons be issued against the parties names and that a jury be empaneled to determine the necessity of the condemnation, to fix the value of the lands and to determine to whom the same should be paid.