City of Chicago v. Ogden, Sheldon & Co.

This is a petition in the county court of Cook county for the confirmation of an assessment (called in this proceeding a new assessment) for an unpaid balance for the cost of building a system of streets in Chicago. The ordinance in the case sets out that the work on said streets had already been done in good faith under prior ordinances passed in 1902 and 1904. Appellees, Ogden, Sheldon & Co., filed twenty-seven objections to the confirmation of this assessment, and the other appellees, by their counsel, filed one hundred and sixteen. After hearing on these objections the court entered an…