Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. v. City of Chicago

The Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company on October 9, 1918, began an action of assumpsit in the superior court of Cook county against the city of Chicago to recover the sum of $4000 which it alleged it had paid to the city on December 10, 1908, under the terms of an ordinance for the vacation of a part of Fillmore street, in the city. The ordinance was set out in full in the declaration, and provided that the vacation was made upon the express condition that the Allis-Chalmers Company, a corporation, the Hey wood Bros. & Wakefield Company, a corporation, and the Chicago Terminal Transfer…