Village of Bradley v. New York Central Railroad

The president and board of trustees of the village of Bradley adopted an ordinance for the construction of a system of brick and tile-pipe sewers in the village of Bradley, with a brick outlet sewer leading from the village to and discharging in the Kankakee river. The village filed a petition in the county court of Kankakee county for the purpose of ascertaining the just compensation for property to be taken or damaged in making the improvement and of assessing upon property benefited by the improvement the amount of such benefit. Many property owners appeared and filed numerous objections.…