People ex rel. Kern v. Nelson

This is an appeal from a judgment of the county court, sustaining an objection made by appellees to the county collector’s application for judgment against the land of appellees as delinquent for non-payment of the fifth installment of a special assessment made by the village of Washington Heights under an ordinance passed by that village on March 18, 1889, before its annexation to Chicago, for the laying of water pipes in certain streets. The judgment confirming the assessment roll had been rendered by default.

The objection made to the entry of judgment is, that the county court had no…