City of Marionville ex rel. Grubaugh v. Henson

This is a suit upon a special tax .bill, issued to the substantial plaintiff Grubaugh by the nominal plaintiff, the city of Marionville, which was at the date hereinafter stated a city of the fourth class. The object of the suit is to enforce a lien on the defendant’s lot for its proportionate liability for the cost of constructing a brick sidewalk on Odell street, on which said lot fronts.' The defenses interposed are that the doing of the work was not authorized by law, that the ordinance under which it purports to have been done was invalid; unreasonable, and oppressive, and that the work…