City of Paxton v. Bogardus

In Pells v. People ex rel. 159 Ill. 580, a judgment for the sale of certain lots for a delinquent special assessment was reversed because, after the confirmation of the assessment for a pavement sixty-one feet wide and before the making of the improvement, an ordinance was passed reducing the width of the pavement to fifty-three feet, in accordance with which ordinance the improvement was made without a new assessment. Afterward a new assessment was made.to pay for the pavement as laid, fifty-three feet wide, but the judgment of confirmation of the latter assessment was reversed by this court…