Dempster v. City of Chicago

Appellants filed their bill in the Superior Court of Cook count;/ asking for relief against a special assessment alleged to have been vitiated by fraud, or for a performance of the agreement upon which the judgment confirming the assessment was entered. Appellee demurred to the bill generally for want of equity on its face, and the demurrer was sustained and the bill dismissed.

The facts as stated in the bill and admitted by the demurrer are as follows: Complainants are owners, as tenants in common, of premises lying between Central Park avenue on the east and Lawndale avenue on the west, in…