Adcock v. City of Chicago
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the County Court of Cook county; the Hon. C. F1. Wheat, Judge, presiding. On the 7th day of April, 1892, the city council of the city of Chicago passed an ordinance for the construction of a sidewalk seven feet wide, on the south side of Sixtieth street, from Cottage Grove avenue to South Park avenue. By the ordinance three commissioners were appointed to make an estimate of the cost of the improvement.
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Appeal from the County Court of Cook county; the Hon. C. F1. Wheat, Judge, presiding. On the 7th day of April, 1892, the city council of the city of Chicago passed an ordinance for the construction of a sidewalk seven feet wide, on the south side of Sixtieth street, from Cottage Grove avenue to South Park avenue. By the ordinance three commissioners were appointed to make an estimate of the cost of the improvement. The estimate was in due time returned by but two of the commissioners signing the same, and showing the estimated cost of the proposed improvement to be $4071. Thereafter, in…
1Per curiam
A large number of objections were interposed in the county court to the confirmation of the assessment, but we shall confine ourselves to a consideration of those pointed out and relied upon in the argument, as the others have no doubt been abandoned by counsel.
The first, second and thirteenth objections urged against the assessment are as follows:
1. “Because it is nowhere stated in the ordinance nor in the petition, nor does it appear anywhere, how much of the first or original assessment has been paid, nor what the amount of the deficiency was or is, or that the property of these objectors…
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