Hawes v.City of Chicago

This is an appeal from a judgment of confirmation of a special assessment made under an ordinance of the city of Chicago passed March 7, 1892, and providing for the construction of a cement sidewalk on Fiftieth street, from Lake avenue to Drexel boulevard. The commissioners appointed to assess the cost and expenses of the improvement upon the property benefited thereby, returned into court an assessment roll, in which the property here in question, then owned by John H. Dunham, since deceased, was assessed in the sum of $1915.50. Various objections, in writing, were filed by said Dunham and…