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player ready...The lawyer for a Joliet businessman who was once awarded more than $660,000 for a small strip of land was threatened with contempt of court Wednesday if he does not produce an appraisal for the property.
Will County Chief Judge Herman Haase issued an order for Robert Mankivsky to appear in court on June 28 with the appraisal. If Mankivsky fails to heed the “show cause” order, he could be held in contempt.
Joliet lawyer Michael Martin, acting for the Illinois Department of Transportation, asked for the order to prove there was an appraisal.
Mankivsky represents I.L. “Lou” Strojin, who initially was given $52,500 for a 24-by-129 foot patch of land taken for the widening of South Chicago Street in Joliet.
The land was part of a larger parcel that contained an abandoned store that stood on part of the land taken by the state. The store was demolished and the rest of the land returned to Strojin.
Strojin later sued to recover money from what his lawyers said was lost revenue for the building, and in May 1993, Haase, then a Circuit Court judge, signed an order awarding Strojin $662,670.
One year later Haase reversed himself, saying that the state’s lawyer didn’t do his job. It was then that Mankivsky told the judge he had an appraisal for the land to back up his claim.