Gardner v. City of Chicago

This was an application in the county court of Cook county for the confirmation of a special assessment levied to pay for improving a system of streets in that part of the city of Chicago known as Ravenswood. The appellant appeared and filed objections to confirmation as to his property, which were overruled, and he has prosecuted this appeal.

It is first contended that the judgment of confirmation should be set aside on the ground that there is a material variance between the improvement described in the resolutions of the board of local improvements and the engineer’s estimate of the cost of…