Maxwell v. City of Chicago

This writ of error was sued out by S. A. Maxwell and others to reverse a judgment of the county court of Cook county confirming a special assessment for grading, paving and curbing Wabash avenue from Sixty-sixth street to Seventy-first street. The proceedings were confirmed by default except as to the property of S. A. Maxwell and Helen Maxwell, and their objections having been overruled, the assessment on their property was also confirmed.

The errors assigned by all the plaintiffs in error are, that the ordinance is invalid because it does not give the height of the curb; and by all except S.…