Gray v. Town of Cicero

This is an appeal from a judgment of the county court of Cook county confirming a special assessment on the lands of appellants. The town of Cicero, a town incorporated under an act of the legislature, approved March 25, 1869, on June 29,1897, passed an ordinance for the construction of a brick sewer, to be known as the “Oak Park avenue outfall sewer,” in the town of Cicero, and establishing a sewerage and drainage district therefor. The ordinance provided that the cost of the proposed improvement should be paid by special assessment upon the property benefited to the amount that might be…