Roby v. City of Chicago

Hr. Justice Lawbence

delivered the opinion of the Court:

This was an application by the City of Chicago to the Superior Court, for judgment against certain lots for city taxes. The appellant filed exceptions as to certain lots, which were "overruled by the court, and judgment was rendered against the lots.

The application was for judgment for the taxes of 1867, and the appellant offered to show that at the city tax sales for 1865 and 1866, certain persons under whom he claimed, had bought the whole of two lots and fractions of other lots, and that he had applied to the assessors and the tax…