City of Chicago v. Galt

This is a proceeding brought under sections 57 and 58 of the Local Improvement act (Hurd’s Stat. 1905, p. 418,) to pay the unpaid balance of the cost of a cement sidewalk. On July 20, 1903, the city council of appellant passed an ordinance for the construction of said sidewalk on both sides of Evanston avenue from Devon avenue to the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad and on the east side of Sheridan road between certain points, and provided that it should be paid for by special assessment. A petition was filed in.the county court of Cook county for the levy of such special assessment,…