Gorton v. City of Chicago

The parties appellant in this case are those who were parties appellant in the cases of Jacobs v. City of Chicago, 178 Ill. 560, Libbey v. City of Chicago, 187 id. 189, and Jarrett v. City of Chicago, 181 id. 242. Those were writs of error seeking to reverse judgments of confirmation in special assessment proceedings in the city of Chicago for the improvement of certain streets, known as the St. Lawrence avenue system, under the law of 1872 and its amendments. The judgments of confirmation were reversed here upon the ground that the ordinance upon which they were based, passed in 1896, was…