City of Chicago v. Wheeler
Illinois Supreme Court
These were actions in assumpsit. The declarations set out the various steps taken, or alleged to have been taken, in pursuance of the charter, for the purpose of condemning the lots of the appellees for the opening of LaSalle street; and among other things, that the “ common council, in pursuance of the requirements of the charter, chose three disinterested freeholders, to wit, F. A. Bragg, Thomas Church, and W. W. Salstonstall, residing in said city, as commissioners to…
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These were actions in assumpsit. The declarations set out the various steps taken, or alleged to have been taken, in pursuance of the charter, for the purpose of condemning the lots of the appellees for the opening of LaSalle street; and among other things, that the “ common council, in pursuance of the requirements of the charter, chose three disinterested freeholders, to wit, F. A. Bragg, Thomas Church, and W. W. Salstonstall, residing in said city, as commissioners to ascertain and assess damages;” that the commissioners proceeded to make their assessments, and “ did determine and appraise…
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
The questions presented by these records are the same in all respects, and will therefore be considered together in this opinion. The cases were special assumpsit, for the recovery of damages awarded to appellees, which they had severally sustained by the appropriation of their real estate to the use of the city, in the extension of LaSalle street. On the trial below, the appellees introduced and read in evidence, against the objection of appellants, the assessment rolls, in which the commissioners had reported the amount of damages appellees had severally sustained by the appropriation of…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Gibson v. City of ChicagoIllinois Supreme Court · 1859
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