Lingle v. West Chicago Park Commissioners
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Lockwood Honors, Judge, presiding. This is an appeal from a judgment, rendered in the circuit court of Cook county on June 17, 1905, confirming a special assessment levied on land adjacent to Marshall boulevard, by authority of the West Chicago Park Commissioners, for the purpose of improving said boulevard according to the scheme or plan of the commissioners, set forth in their ordinance.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Lockwood Honors, Judge, presiding. This is an appeal from a judgment, rendered in the circuit court of Cook county on June 17, 1905, confirming a special assessment levied on land adjacent to Marshall boulevard, by authority of the West Chicago Park Commissioners, for the purpose of improving said boulevard according to the scheme or plan of the commissioners, set forth in their ordinance. The park commissioners filed their petition for the levy of the special assessment for said improvement on April 4, 1902, and the proceedings were had…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Scott
Appellant contends that each of his motions to dismiss the proceedings should have been sustained, and that as they went to the jurisdiction of the court to entertain the proceeding at all, his rights in reference thereto were saved by his motion in arrest of judgment. In the statement preceding his brief, he points out fifty-three separate and specific errors which he says were committed by the court below, and in support of this formidable array of alleged errors he presents a brief of five pages, an argument of five pages and a reply brief of five pages, and the court having heretofore…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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- Gray v. Town of CiceroIllinois Supreme Court · 1898
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