Burke v. Village of Glenview

PRESIDING JUSTICE McCORMICK

delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiffs appeal from an order granting summary judgment in favor of defendants. The trial court found that plaintiffs’ declaratory judgment action was barred under the doctrine of res judicata. For the reasons that follow, we affirm the decision of the trial court.

In 1981, plaintiffs Edmund J. and Jane D. Burke filed a declaratory judgment action seeking a determination that defendants, the Village of Glenview, its president and board of trustees, acted arbitrarily and unreasonably in denying their application for a zoning…