Holmes v. Village of Hyde Park
Decision Date | 12 May 1887 |
Citation | 13 N.E. 540,121 Ill. 128 |
Parties | HOLMES v. VILLAGE OF HYDE PARK. |
Court | Illinois Supreme Court |
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Appeal from county court, Cook county.
J. S. Huey, for Rufus E. Holmes, appellant and defendant.
Henry V. Freeman, for appellee.
The question here is whether the owner of property specially assessed for the purpose of grading and paying a street of an incorporated village can interpose the objection, on an application to the court to confirm the assessment, that the village has not acquired title to the soil to be graded and paved as a street. The question is, in effect, answered in the negative by Village of Hyde Park, v. Borden, 94 Ill. 26. The objection was there urged, as here, that the ordinance was void because it required the improvement to be made upon private property, and it was answered: This assessment is not for private, but for public use; for the improvement of a street of the village for public travel; and so is no violation of section 13, art. 2, of our constitution, which provides that ‘private property shall not be taken or damaged for public use without just compensation.’ Whether the compensation shall be made to the owner of the soil for the land taken for the street before or after the assessment for its improvement cannot make that assessment either larger or smaller; and so whether title to the soil entered upon for the purposes of the street has been...
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