Brown v. City of Chicago

This is a bill in chancery, filed by plaintiffs in error in the Superior Court of Cook county, against the city of Chicago and the collector of Cook county, the defendants in error herein, to restrain said collector from selling certain lots in Chicago for the non-payment of a special assessment for the improvement of Main street in that city. Defendants below demurred to the bill, which, after argument upon the demurrer, was dismissed for want of equity.'

It was alleged in the bill and is here urged, that the county court had no jurisdiction to confirm the assessment, because sufficient…