City of Chicago v. Willoughby

Appellants are the owners of or interested in property against which a special assessment for local improvements has been confirmed by the judgment of the circuit court of Cook county. To reverse that judgment this appeal is prosecuted.

The property in controversy is situated on South Park avenue between Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth streets. South Park avenue originally was sixty-six feet wide except between those two- streets, where it was only twenty-nine feet wide. It ivas proposed by the city to widen South Park avenue between the streets mentioned, by the condemnation of thirty-seven feet…