Illinois Supreme Court April 15, 1858 (Wright v. City of Chicago)

Caton, C. J.

We have arrived at our conclusion in this case with reluctance. That there is as much propriety in requiring the owners of property benefited by the deepening of the harbor, to pay the - expense of the improvement, as there is in requiring those benefited by widening it, or improving a street, would seem to be self-evident.