Burton v. City of Chicago

Citations

• 53 Ill. 87

Syllabus

<p>1. Special assessments—time of fling objections to confirmation. • The clause of the charter of the city of Chicago which requires objections to a special assessment to be filed at least one day prior to the meeting of the common council at which the confirmation of the assessment will be applied for, is construed as intending that a day shall intervene between the last day of publication of notice of such application and the action of the council, and that day not a Sunday.</p> <p>2. So, where the last day of such publication was a Saturday, and the council confirmed the assessment on the following Monday, the intervening day being Sunday, which is dies non juridicus, it was held, the parties interested had no opportunity, such as the law contemplates, to file their objections, and a judgment on the assessment was reversed on that ground.</p>