Village of Downers Grove v. Findlay

John Findlay and forty other owners of lots in the village of Downers Grove appealed from the judgment of the county court of DuPage county confirming a special assessment against their property, levied by said village to defray the expense of curbing with concrete curbs and gutters and paving with brick the roadways of a district including nine streets.

The objections which were interposed to the assessment and overruled by the court were what are termed in the Local Improvement act legal objections, and the first one was, that the ordinance for the improvement never took effect. The…