Maywood Co. v. Village of Maywood

This was a proceeding in the court below to levy a special assessment, by the village of Maywood, to pay for a brick sewer on one of its streets, with certain laterals. On the coming in of the commissioners’ report making the assessment, appellants filed objections, upon which they resisted the confirmation of the assessment roll. Several of these objections were overruled by the cou-rt, without submitting them to a jury, no question of fact being raised by them. 'The trial before thé jury was confined strictly to the issue whether or not the proposed sewer would benefit the property of the…