Morris v. City of Chicago
Illinois Supreme Court
This was an application by the City of Chicago to the Cook Common Pleas, to have Madison street, in said city, between Wells and State streets, widened. The application was allowed, commissioners were appointed, proofs heard, and report of commissioners was filed. At February term, 1850, Spring, Judge, presiding, after hearing the exceptions to the report, the report was confirmed, and the land necessary to the opening of said street was condemned.
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This was an application by the City of Chicago to the Cook Common Pleas, to have Madison street, in said city, between Wells and State streets, widened. The application was allowed, commissioners were appointed, proofs heard, and report of commissioners was filed. At February term, 1850, Spring, Judge, presiding, after hearing the exceptions to the report, the report was confirmed, and the land necessary to the opening of said street was condemned. The parties interested in'the land assessed, took exceptions to the ruling of the Court, and prayed this appeal. The points in controversy are…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by Treat, C. J.:
The eleventh section of the “ Act supplementary to the act to incorporate the city of Chicago, approved March 4th, 1837,” declares, that “ the common council shall have power to lay out, make and assess, streets, alleys, lanes and highways, in said city, and make wharves and slips at the ends of streets, and to alter, widen, contract, straighten and discontinue the same.” It further declares, “ whenever the common council shall desire to take or appropriate any land, or town lot, or any part thereof, not the property of the city, for any of the purposes aforesaid, they…
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