Smythe v. City of Chicago

On this appeal from the judgment of confirmation, appellants insist that the county court erred in overruling each of four of their objections.

The improvement provided for is a system of sewers, to be constructed of brick and vitrified tile-pipe, in West One Hundred and Thirteenth street from Wentworth avenue to Stewart avenue, in Yale street, and on Princeton and Howard avenues. The ordinance provided that the walls of the catch-basins should be eight inches thick, resting on a solid bottom of two-inch oak plank strongly spiked to cross-planks firmly imbedded, and the first objection is that…