Case ID: ill_188/html/0347-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Mr. Chief Justice Boggs", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Charles G. Rose et al. v. The City of Chicago.
    
      Opinion filed December 20, 1900.
    
    This case is controlled by the decisions in Lusk v. City of Chicago, 176 Ill. 207, and Kuester v. City of Chicago, 187 id. 21.
    Writ of Error to the County Court of Cook county; the Hon. Orrin N. Carter, Judge, presiding.
    William P. Carroll, for plaintiffs in error.
    Charles M. Walker, Corporation Counsel, Denis E. Sullivan, and William M. Pindell, for defendant in error.
   Mr. Chief Justice Boggs

delivered the opinion of the court:

This is a writ of error sued out to reverse a judgment entered in the county court of Cook county, confirming a special assessment levied by virtue of an ordinance of the city for the purpose of paying the cost of grading, paving and curbing Vernon avenue from Sixty-ninth to Seventy-third street, in said city.

The objection that the ordinance provides the curbing shall rest on “fiat stones,” and for that reason does not, on its face, sufficiently describe the nature, character, locality and description of the proposed improvement, is the same objection that we held in Lusk v. City of Chicago, 176 Ill. 207, and Kuester v. City of Chicago, 187 id. 21, should have been sustained in the trial court. On the authority of those cases the judgment in this cause must be and is reversed and the cause remanded.

Reversed and remanded.