Bragg v. City of Chicago

The court sustained the motion entered hv defendant in arrest of judgment, rendered on default, and after the writ of inquiry was executed. That decision is assigned for error.

The declaration is in debt, and is upon an award or an appraisement made by commissioners, appointed by the city of Chicago, to determine and appraise to the owners, of whom plaintiff in error was one, the value of real estate taken for the extension of a street in the city, and the injury sustained by them, after deducting therefrom any benefit which would accrue to such owners, respectively, for such improvement.

The…