Village of Oak Park v. Galt

This is an appeal from confirmation in the county court of Cook county of a special assessment levied by the village of Oak Park for the purpose of constructing a tile-pipe sewer in certain streets therein, together with necessary catch-basins, man-holes and junctions, at an estimated cost of $11,368.

The estimate of the engineer is in four items. The only one complained of by appellant is the following: “Forty-six iron catch-basins seven feet deep, including nine-inch sewer pipe connections fifteen feet long, $1840.” It is insisted that this item, in the estimate is faulty because it does not…