Glos v. Cannata
Appellate Court of Illinois
Bill to remove cloud, etc. Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. Marcus Kavanagh, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1904. Statement by the Court.
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Bill to remove cloud, etc. Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. Marcus Kavanagh, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1904. Statement by the Court. This is an appeal from a decree of the Superior Court of Cook county finding and decreeing that a certain ordinance of the Village of Wilmette for the construction of a sidewalk in forty-two different streets and parts of streets in that village, is void; that the return of the village clerk of Wilmette of the delinquency of certan lots in said village for a special tax levied against them under the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
This cause must be controlled by the decisions of the Supreme Court in People v. Latham, 203 Ill. 9, and People v. Grover, 203 Ill. 24, which distinctly hold that an ordinance passed under the Sidewalk Act of 1875 (an act to provide additional means for the construction of sidewalks in cities, towns and villages, approved April 15, 1875) can legally provide only for the laying of a sidewalk on one street alone, and not on a number of different streets, and that a special tax levied under an ordinance which ordered such a construction upon many disconnected streets in the same village, could…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- People ex rel. Raymond v. LathamIllinois Supreme Court · 1903
- Boals v. BachmannIllinois Supreme Court · 1903
- People ex rel. Raymond v. GroverIllinois Supreme Court · 1903
- Glos v. CollinsAppellate Court of Illinois · 1903
- Boals v. BachmannAppellate Court of Illinois · 1902
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- McGarry v. Village of WilmetteAppellate Court of Illinois · 1921