Lusk v. City of Chicago

This is an appeal from a judgment of confirmation entered by the county court of Cook county in a proceeding brought by the city of Chicago to pay the unpaid balance of the cost of improving Bonney avenue from Ogden avenue to Douglas boulevard.

This case is known as the original “flat-stone” case, being the first of many cases passed upon by this court where it' was held that an ordinance for paving and curbing a street, which merely stated that the curb-stones of the street about to be paved should be bedded on flat stones, without giving the ditiiensions of the flat stones or other details…