Village of Elmwood Park v. L. H. Mills & Sons

The president and trustees of the village of Elmwood Park passed an ordinance providing for the laying of cast-iron water supply-pipes in certain streets of the village and caused. a petition to be filed for the assessment of the cost upon the property benefited by the improvement. A number of owners of property appeared and filed objections. The objections consisted of a printed list containing more than one hundred objections, many of which had no application whatever to the facts in regard to this particular assessment and many others were stated so vaguely and indefinitely as to present…