Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad v. City of Chicago

This was an application for judgment, upon a special assessment levied for curbing with curb walls and filling Clark street, from the south line of Twelfth street to the north line of Eighteenth street, and from the south line of Eighteenth street to the north line of Twenty-second street.

It appears from the evidence, without controversy, that before the passage of the ordinance ordering this improvement, a considerable portion of it, such as building curb walls and filling, had been done by private individuals and a railroad corporation, of their own motion. In the report of the Board of…