City of Chicago v. Wilson

This is an appeal from an order of the county court of Cook county sustaining objections of appellees to the confirmation of a special assessment to pay the cost of constructing a cement sidewalk in front of appellees’ properties on certain portions of Cottage Grove-avenue between Forty-seventh and Fifty-first streets, in the city of Chicago. Appellees objected on the ground that the ordinance, so far as it affected the property objected for, was unreasonable, unjust, burdensome, and therefore void. The court found the issues for the objectors, and from this holding the appeal was prosecuted.

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