Parmelee v. City of Chicago

At the March term, 1871, of the Superior Court, an application was made by the collector of the city of Chicago, upon his report in certain condemnation proceedings for widening State street, for judgment against delinquent real estate, for the special assessment levied thereon in such proceeding; to which application various objections were made, in apt time, by the owners of such real estate, among which was the objection that the property and franchise of the Horse Railroad Company, whose tracks were in the street proposed to be widened, were specially benefited by the proposed improvement…