People ex rel. Merriman v. Illinois Central Railroad

This is an appeal from a judgment of the county court of Lee county sustaining objections to an application for judgment and order of sale for a delinquent special sewer assessment of the city of Dixon against certain lands of the appellee, described as the southerly ninety feet of the block west of the Illinois Central railroad, in said city.

The appellee acquired title to the land in 1852 and has remained the owner since that time. In 1902 the city of Dixon sought to levy a special assessment against this and other property for the construction of a sewer. A commissioner was duly appointed…