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  "name": "Timothy Wright v. The City of Chicago",
  "name_abbreviation": "Wright v. City of Chicago",
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      "cite": "56 Ill. 354",
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      "Timothy Wright v. The City of Chicago."
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        "text": "Per Cubiam :\nThe ordinance under which the assessment in question was levied, orders that West Randolph street, from the west line of Halstead street to the east curb line of Carpenter street, be curbed with curb walls where the same \u00e1re not now already built, and where the same are not now in a good and sound condition ; and that said street, from the west line of Carpenter street to the western terminus of said Randolph street, at Union Park, be curbed with curb stones where the same are not already set, and where the same\" are not now in a good and sound condition; and that said West Randolph street, from the west line of Halstead street to the west ter-mijius of Randolph street, at Union Park, be filled, etc., and paved with wooden blocks, excepting a space sixteen feet wide in the middle of said street, from the west line of Halstead street to the western terminus, etc., now occupied by the tracks of the Chicago West Division Railway Company, the work to be done under the superintendence of the board of public works.\nThis ordinance vests the board of public Avorks Avith a discretion, required to be exercised by the common council alone. It falls Avithin the decision of the case of Foss v. City of Chicago, 56 Ill. 354, and is void.\nThe judgment of the court below is reversed and the cause remanded.\nJudgment reversed.",
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        "author": "Per Cubiam :"
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    "attorneys": [
      "Mr. DANIEL L. Shoeey, for the appellant.",
      "Mr. M. F. Tuley, Corporation Counsel, for the appellee."
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    "head_matter": "Timothy Wright v. The City of Chicago.\nSpecial assessments \u2014 in the city of Chicago \u2014 hy whom the character of the improvement to he determined. An ordinance of the city of Chicago directed a certain street to be curbed with curb walls \u201cwhere the same are not now already built, and where the same are not now in a good and sound condition,\u201d the work to be done under the superintendence of the board of public works: Held, the ordinance vested the board of public works with a discretion required to be exercised by the common council alone, and was void.\nAppeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. Joseph E. Gaey, Judge, presiding.\nThis was a proceeding in the court below for a judgment upon a special assessment warrant, which resulted in a judgment against the property upon which the assessment was made, from which the owner appealed.\nMr. DANIEL L. Shoeey, for the appellant.\nMr. M. F. Tuley, Corporation Counsel, for the appellee."
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