City of Waukegan v. DeWolf

The city of Waukegan, appellant, filed its petition in the county court of Lake county asking the court to confirm a special assessment to pay the cost of constructing a viaduct. The court sustained an objection of the appellees that the proposed work did not constitute a local improvement and dismissed the petition. The case ,is stated by counsel for appellant as follows: “This is a case wherein Genesee street, the chief business thoroughfare of the city of Waukegan, became severed into two parts, by the closing, on account of dilapidation, of an old structure spanning a ravine which bisects…