Morrison v. City of Chicago
Illinois Supreme Court
This case is presented, upon the same state of facts, as that preceding it, of Gibson et al. v. The City, where the point decided in this case, is set out in the statement.
1Opinion of the CourtCaton, C. J.
The only question which we propose to consider in these cases, arises on the decision of the court, in sustaining the objection made to the evidence offered by the owners of the land, tending to prove that another assessment had been levied and paid upon the same lot for the same year, which, together with this assessment, amounted to more than than three per cent., on the valuation of the lot. In this we think the court erred. This question depends on the construction to be given to the proviso to the second section of the seventh chapter of the city charter, which is quoted in the case of…
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