Rieker v. City of Danville

The appellee, the city of Danville, filed in the county court of Vermilion county its petition under the act concerning local improvements, in force July 1, 1897, (Hurd’s Stat. 1899, p. 862,) for the appointment of two commissioners to act with the president of the board of local improvements in fixing the ' compensation for private property to be taken for opening and extending a street and to assess benefits resulting therefrom. The commissioners were appointed and their compensation was fixed as provided by the act, and they reported that the appellant John Rieker, an insane person, was…