Holmes v. Village of Hyde Park

The question here is, whether the owner of property specially assessed for the purpose of grading and paving a street of an incorporated village, can interpose the objection, on an application to the court to confirm the assessment, that the village has not acquired title to the soil' to be graded and paved as a street.

The question is, in effect, answered in the negative by Village of Hyde Park v. Borden, 94 Ill. 26. The objection was there urged, as here, that the ordinance was void because it required the improvement to be made upon private property, and it was answered: “The statute does…