Foss v. City of Chicago

Writs of error were sued out from this court in eighteen cases to review judgments of the county court of' Cook county confirming special assessments levied to pay for improvements of streets in the city of Chicago. The assignments of error in the several cases questioned the validity of the ordinance providing for the improvements. The questions being of the same nature, the causes were on motion, by order of court, consolidated.

In the ordinances found in fifteen of the transcripts of record the description of the improvement is defective in the same respect as the ordinance considered in…