Hoblit v. City of Bloomington

The question is as to the declaration filed by plaintiff, to which the Circuit Court sustained a general demurrer. In effect, the demand upon which the plaintiff sought to recover was that the city, having in its treasury a sum of money accruing from a special assessment, "to which the plaintiff’s intestate was entitled, had withheld payment thereof until coerced by legal proceedings, and that by reason of the delay and expense of such proceedings plaintiff was damaged in being deprived of the use of the money and of great gains and profits (from the use of the same presumably, though not so…