City of Chester v. Kennedy

This appeal is from the judgment of the county court of Randolph county confirming a special assessment by the city of Chester to pay the cost of a street paving improvement. The court overruled the legal objections, and, a jury having found that the property of the objectors was not assessed more than it would be benefited or more than its proportionate share of the cost of the improvement, entered a judgment of confirmation, from which three of the objectors, F. C. Kennedy, John Darwin and T. W. Tackenberg, have appealed.

The city of Chester is situated on the east bank of the Mississippi…