City of Springfield ex rel. Central National Bank v. Weaver

The suit is upon a special tax bill. The judgment in the trial court was for the defendants. The plaintiff appeals and assigns numerous errors which we can not consider, since we must conclude that a constitutional question is raised upon the record, which deprives us of jurisdiction of the appeal.

The abstract of the record recites that, before the introduction of any evidence, the defendant made the *294objection “that the entire law of cities of the third class authorizing them to assess the abutting property owners on the street for improvements upon such street is unconstitutional and void,…