City of Chicago v. Gage

This appeal is from a judgment of confirmation of a special assessment against certain lots of the appellant for the improvement of South Paulina street, in the city of Chicago. Appellant’s objections insisted upon here are a variance between the resolution of the board of local improvements and the ordinance, that the ordinance failed to prescribe the nature, character, locality and description of the proposed improvement, and that the estimate of the cost was void.

The resolution provided for paving with asphalt on six inches of Portland cement concrete, swept with natural hydraulic cement.…