Andrews v. People ex rel. Rumsey

Citations

• 83 Ill. 529

Syllabus

<p>1. Special assessments—port in West Chicago. The net damages for taking property for the park and boulevards in West Chicago, are the amounts required to he paid to the owners for the taking of their land, and this is the cost which is meant in the provision of the statute limiting the amount of the cost of the improvement. But even if the assessment exceeded the sum limited, the objection should he made before confirmation.</p> <p>3. Same—supplemental parle act—submission -to rote. Where, by a vote of the pbople, under the original Park Act, the park commissioners became corporate authorities, for the purpose of constructing and maintaining certain public improvements, it was held, that the legislature might regulate and modify their powers and duties without submitting the supplemental act to a vote.</p> <p>3. Same—whether property is benefited. It is too late, on application for judgment against lands for special assessments, to insist, that the property is not benefited to the amounts assessed thereon. The judgment confirming the assessment is conclusive upon the question, and can not be attacked collaterally.</p> <p>4. Same—notice of application for judgment. Under the acts relating to the park and boulevards in West Chicago, and assessments therefor, on application for judgment for unpaid assessments, a notice of the application published three times, for three successive weeks, is all that the statute required.</p>