Galt v. City of Chicago

This is an appeal from a judgment of confirmation of a special assessment for curbing, grading and paving a portion of North Clark street, in the city of Chicago.

It is first urged that the ordinance contained in the petition, and under which the assessment was made, was in,fact never passed by the council of the city of Chicago, and that consequently all proceedings based on such supposed ordinance are void. When the objection to the admission in evidence of this ordinance was made in the county court, counsel for the city admitted that the copy of the ordinance attached to the petition was…