Cram v. City of Chicago

This is an appeal from the judgment of the county court of Cook county, confirming a special assessment for curbing, filling and paving Emerald avenue.

But one ground is relied upon by counsel for appellants to reverse the judgment of the county court. The ordinance' under which the assessment was made, provided that Emerald ■avenue should be paved with cedar blocks. On the hearing, .the appellants offered to show that a macadam road, of the. average thickness of a foot and a half, in that same locality, would give the same advantage of egress and access, and of passage to and fro, that the…