Bryan v. City of Chicago

Citations

• 60 Ill. 507

Syllabus

<p>Special assessment — illegal ordinance. Where the common council passed an ordinance for the improvement of a street, and ordered curb walls to be built where the same were not already built, and in good and sound condition, but it did not specify what portion was in good and sound condition and what was not: Held, that the ordinance was an attempt to confer on the board of public works an illegal discretion which would tend to open the way to an unfair assessment, and to favoritism and fraud. It is governed by the case of Foss v. Oity of Chicago, 56 Ill. 354, and is held to be void, and the collector had no authority to apply for judgment.</p>