Middaugh v. City of Chicago

This is an appeal by certain property owners from a judgment of confirmation of a special assessment levied to pay the cost of grading, curbing, and paving with granite blocks, a designated part of Clinton street, in Chicago.

The first objection urged here is, that the ordinance did not originate with the board of local improvements. The record shows that a petition by the property owners owning the greater proportion of the property abutting upon the proposed improvement was presented to the board of local improvements early in 1898, asking that the street be paved with cedar blocks.…