City of Chicago v. Blair
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the County Court of Cook county; the Hon. Frame Scales, Judge, presiding. This was a proceeding to confirm a special assessment upon the property of appellee and others, for local improvement of the street upon which the property was situated.
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Appeal from the County Court of Cook county; the Hon. Frame Scales, Judge, presiding. This was a proceeding to confirm a special assessment upon the property of appellee and others, for local improvement of the street upon which the property was situated. The objectors appeared in the county court and filed objections, which, among other questions raised, deny the power of the city to make the assessment for the purposes designated in the ordinance; The ordinance provided that the roadway of certain named streets, between specified points thereon, should be sprinkled with water four times a…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shope
The question presented by this record is, whether municipal. authorities in cities and villages organized under the general law for the incorporation thereof, have power to provide that the cost of sprinkling the streets of the city or village shall be paid by special assessment. In other words, is the sprinkling of streets a local improvement, within the meaning of the statute authorizing cities and villages to make local improvements by special assessment.
Section 9, article 9, of the constitution, authorizes the General Assembly to vest corporate authorities of cities, towns and villages…
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- City of Bloomington v. Chicago & Alton RailroadIllinois Supreme Court · 1890
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