City of Chicago v. Barbian

This appeal is prosecuted to reverse a judgment of the court below overruling the respondent’s demurrer to the petition of the relator. ,

The mandamus asked for is to compel the levy and collection of a tax for the payment of a sum, ascertained and reported by a jury, and adjudged by a court of competent jurisdiction to be compensation, for damages to be sustained by the relator to certain property, by reason of the widening of Horth State street, in the city of Chicago.

After the return of the jury, ascertaining and reporting the amount of damages to be sustained to the relator’s property, by…