Gage v. City of Chicago

This is an appeal from a judgment of the county court of Cook county confirming a special assessment against the lands of appellant to pay for the construction of a sewer in West Addison street, in the city of Chicago, from the north branch of the Chicago river to a point two and a half miles west of said river.

The ordinance in this case is substantially the same as the one brought before this court in Bickerdike v. City of Chicago, 185 Ill. 280, with certain modifications, designed to obviate the defects condemned in that case. Several of the objections raised here were raised against the…