Brown v. City of Evanston

This is an appeal from an order and decree of the circuit court of Cook County denying appellants’ motion for judgment on the pleadings and dismissing their complaint when they stood on their pleadings. Appellants are taxpayers and residents of the city of Evanston. They began this action as a representative suit to set aside a contract of purchase and sale of certain real estate commonly known as the “Doetsch Pit,” alleging that the city had entered into the contract of purchase of the real estate without a prior appropriation therefor as required by section 15-3 of the Revised Cities and…