The former owners of Horizon Farms in Barrington Hills say they will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their lawsuit against the Forest Preserve District of Cook County, after the Illinois Supreme Court declined without comment to hear the case this week.
Richard Kirk Cannon and Meryl Squires Cannon claimed the forest district illegally acquired the 400-acre estate they once owned in a 2009 foreclosure.
The lawsuit — one of multiple suits filed in relation to Horizon Farms — argues the forest preserve district didn’t have legal standing to complete the $14.5 million sale because the Cannons were in the midst of trying to get the property out of foreclosure.
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Any time “crook county” is involved in your life, you can be sure of a nefarious outcome.
It’s a shame that the Cannon family has chosen to spend all their money on lawyers after they lost the farm. Maybe the money would have been better spent on paying the mortgage and the property taxes?
That is the most insensitive remark I have ever seen.