City of Chicago v. Singer

This was a petition to the county court of Cook county for a judgment confirming a special assessment levied under an ordinance of the city of Chicago, to defray the cost of curbing, grading, and paving with vitrified brick, a system of streets on the north-westerly side of the city of Chicago, known as the “Spaulding avenue system.” The appellees severally filed numerous “legal objections” to the confirmation of the assessment. The court sustained the objection that the ordinance was indefinite and uncertain and dismissed the petition, and in the judgment set forth a certain provision of the…