Bickerdike v. City of Chicago

Appellants bring here for review the record of a judgment confirming a special assessment against their lands to pay for the construction of a sewer in West Addison street, in the city of Chicago, from the north branch of the Chicago river to a point about two and a half miles west of said river. The ordinance which is the basis of the assessment provides for a brick sewer of five and a half feet internal diameter at its outlet, narrowing to two and a half feet at its terminus. The sewer is to be ten feet underground at the river and sixteen feet at the west end. Territory half a mile wide…