Chicago v. Taylor

This action was brought by Moses Taylor, as owner of an undivided interest in a lot in Chicago, having sixty feet front on Lumber Street, one hundred and fifty feet on Eighteenth Street, and three hundred feet on the South Branch of Chicago River, to recover the damages sustained by reason-of the construction, by that city, of a viaduct on Eighteenth Street, in the immediate vicinity of said lot. The city did this work under the power conferred by its charter “ to lay out, establish, open, alter, widen, extend, grade, pave, or otherwise improve, streets, alleys, avenues, sidewalks, wharves,…