Hynes v. City of Chicago

This is an appeal from a judgment of the county court of Cook county rendered on the 14th day of April, 1898, confirming a special assessment for the construction of a brick and vitrified tile-pipe sewer in Madison avenue from Sixty-third to Sixtieth street, and in an alley north of and adjoining the right of way of the Illinois Central Railroad Company, from Madison avenue to Washington avenue.

Proceedings were instituted under an act concerning local improvements, approved June 14, 1897. Objections to the confirmation of the assessment were filed, and a jury was 'waived and the cause…