Sweet v. West Chicago Park Commissioners

This was a proceeding instituted by the appellee commissioners in the county court of Cook county, under the provisions of section 20 of an act of the General Assembly in force July 1, 1895, entitled “An act to authorize the corporate authorities of towns to issue bonds for the completion and improvement of public parks,” etc., (Hurd’s Stat. 1897, chap. 105, par. 159,) to levy, assess and collect a new special assessment on property benefited by the improvement before that time made by said commissioners of certain parts of Ogden avenue and Twelfth street as a boulevard leading to Douglas…