West Chicago Park Commissioners v. Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad

This was an application by the appellant commissioners for the confirmation of a new special assessment levied to defray the cost of the improvement of Douglas boulevard, in the city of Chicago, a former assessment for that purpose having been held void.. The improvement was completed under the former assessment, and this was a proceeding under section 20 of-the act approved June 24, 1895, (Hurd’s Stat. 1897, par. 159, chap. 105,) to levy and collect a new assessment on the property benefited. It appeared from the assessment roll that the sum of $7 per foot had been levied upon the property…