The Sanitary District of Chicago: History of Its Growth and Development as Shown by Decisions of the Courts and Work of Its Law Department |
Contents
| 48 | |
| 54 | |
| 60 | |
| 73 | |
| 80 | |
| 84 | |
| 90 | |
| 97 | |
| 103 | |
| 104 | |
| 110 | |
| 117 | |
| 124 | |
| 130 | |
| 136 | |
| 173 | |
| 179 | |
| 185 | |
| 190 | |
| 191 | |
| 194 | |
| 200 | |
| 206 | |
| 209 | |
| 213 | |
| 215 | |
| 219 | |
| 225 | |
| 241 | |
| 247 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
adjuncts alleged amount appellee authority Bascule Bridges bill Board of Trustees bridge Calumet district Calumet river Calumet Sag Channel canal commissioners Chicago River City of Chicago city of Evanston condemnation connection construction contract Cook County cost cubic feet damages dams District of Chicago drain drainage channel electrical energy Engineer feet of water flow of water furnish Illinois and Michigan Illinois river Illinois Supreme Court improvement injury January 17 Joliet Lake Michigan land Law Department legislature limits Little Calumet River Lockport main channel Michigan Canal municipal corporations navigation necessary north shore channel operation opinion ordinance outlet overflow Plaines and Illinois Plaines River plaintiff question reported in Volume S. D. Brief Sani Sanitary District act Secretary of War Section sewage sewers south branch special assessment statute Street sub-stations suit supply tary District taxes territory thereof tion trict villages water from Lake water power waterway
Popular passages
Page 24 - Assembly may vest the corporate authorities of cities, towns and villages with power to make local improvements by special assessment or by special taxation of contiguous property or otherwise. For all other corporate purposes, all municipal corporations may be vested with authority to assess and collect taxes; but such taxes shall be uniform in respect to persons and property within the jurisdiction of the body imposing the same.
Page 161 - The property of the state, counties, and other municipal corporations, both real and personal, and such other property, as may be used exclusively for agricultural and horticultural societies, for school, religious, cemetery and charitable purposes, may be exempted from taxation; but such exemption shall be only by general law.
Page 168 - We perceive, therefore, that the term ' public purpose,' as employed to denote the objects for which taxes may be levied, has no relation to the urgency of the public need or to the extent of the public benefit which is to follow. It is, on the other hand, merely a term of classification to distinguish the objects for which, according to settled usage, the Government is to provide, from those which, by the like usage, are left to private inclination, interest, or liberality.
Page 41 - ... own creation or from other sources than Illinois. What will protect against one will protect against another. The presence of causes of infection from the plaintiff's action makes the case weaker in principle as well as harder to prove than one in which all came from a single source.
Page 54 - The board of trustees of any sanitary district organized under this act shall have power to provide for the drainage of such district by laying out, establishing, constructing and maintaining one or more main channels, drains, ditches and outlets for carrying off and disposing of the drainage (including the sewage) of such district, together with such adjuncts and additions thereto as may be necessary or proper to cause such channels or outlets to accomplish the end for which they are designed in...
Page 94 - Every sanitary district shall be liable for all damages to real estate within or without such district which shall be overflowed or otherwise damaged by reason of the construction, enlargement, or use of any channel, ditch drain, outlet or other improvement under the provisions of this Act...
Page 97 - They immediately moved to dismiss the complaint, on grounds stated by them in making similar motions during the trial, at the close of plaintiff's evidence, and again at the close of all the evidence...
Page 186 - Provided, further, that the General Assembly may, by suitable legislation, provide for the construction of a deep waterway or canal from the present water power plant of the Sanitary District of Chicago at or near Lockport, in the township of Lockport, in the county of Will, to a point in the Illinois river at or near Utica...
Page 68 - It may be said that the state takes property by eminent domain because it is useful to the public, and under the police power because it is harmful . . . From this results the difference between the power of eminent domain and the police power, that the former recognizes a right to compensation, while the latter on principle does not.
Page 117 - And the canal commissioners, if they shall find at any time that an additional supply of water has been added to either of said rivers, by any drainage district or districts, to maintain a depth of not less than six feet from any dam owned by the State, to and into the first lock of the Illinois and Michigan canal at LaSalle, without the aid of any such dam, at low water, then it shall be the duty of said canal commissioners to cause such dam or dams to be removed.