Fisher v. People ex rel. Kern
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the County Court of Cook county;' the Hon. Frank Scales, Judge, presiding. On March 14, 1892, the city council of the city of Chicago passed an ordinance providing that Cottage Grove avenue, from Seventy-fifth street to Ninety-fifth street, (except sixteen feet in the middlé thereof,) be curbed with wooden curbing, filled and macadamized.
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Appeal from the County Court of Cook county;' the Hon. Frank Scales, Judge, presiding. On March 14, 1892, the city council of the city of Chicago passed an ordinance providing that Cottage Grove avenue, from Seventy-fifth street to Ninety-fifth street, (except sixteen feet in the middlé thereof,) be curbed with wooden curbing, filled and macadamized. The first section of the ordinance provided the kind and quality of posts and planks to be used in the curbing, and “that said Cottage Grove avenue (excepting a space sixteen feet wide in the middle of said Cottage Grove avenue between said…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Phillips
The appellant insists the ordinance is void because it failed to state the proposed improvement lies within the city of Chicago, and that two or more judgments were entered, and the court was without jurisdiction to enter more than one judgment on the proceeding for special assessment. Both these questions were passed upon by this court in Wisner v. People ex rel. 156 Ill. 180, and determined adversely to this contention.
It is further urged that the improvement has not been made in accordance with the ordinance, and but a part of Cottage G-rove avenue in front of appellant’s property has been…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- People ex rel. Miller v. BrislinIllinois Supreme Court · 1875
- Clark v. People ex rel. KernIllinois Supreme Court · 1893
- Wisner v. People ex rel. KernIllinois Supreme Court · 1895
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