City of Chicago v. Sherman
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the County Court of Cook county; the Hon. F. M. ShonkwilEr, Judge, presiding. January 6, 1896, the city council of the city of Chicago passed an ordinance for the improvement, by special assessment, of Hamlin avenue from West Chicago avenue to West North avenue, in said city.
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Appeal from the County Court of Cook county; the Hon. F. M. ShonkwilEr, Judge, presiding. January 6, 1896, the city council of the city of Chicago passed an ordinance for the improvement, by special assessment, of Hamlin avenue from West Chicago avenue to West North avenue, in said city. The ordinance, as to the property of appellees, in Cingle v. City of Chicago, 178 Ill. 628, was held invalid, on the ground the ordinance failed to state the height of the curb required to be constructed oil each side of the street, and thé cause was reversed and remanded. Upon the re-instatement of the case…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hand
The first cross-error assigned is, that the county court erred in overruling the motion to dismiss the petition. We do not agree with such contention. The record in Gorton v. City of Chicago, 201 Ill. 534, is the same as the record in this case so far as it applies to the original assessment, with the exception that when the confirmation judgment was reversed and remanded and the cause re-instated in the county court, no attempt was made to review in this court the action of the county court in dismissing the petition. The judgment of this court in the Sherman case added no force to the…
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