McChesney v. City of Chicago

This is an appeal from a judgment of the county court of Cook county confirming a special assessment against appellants’ property for paving Vernon avenue, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth and Sixty-sixth streets, in the city of Chicago, with crushed limestone and granite top dressing.

It is objected by appellants that the ordinance contravenes the act of 1901, in that it provides that the cost of making and collecting the assessment shall be paid by special assessment. The proceedings were instituted prior to the date that act took effect, and judgment was entered on June 13, 1901,—more than a month…