City of Belleville v. Pfingsten

On a hearing in the county court of St. Clair county of the legal objections as to an ordinance for paving with brick, on a concrete foundation, ten blocks of Charles street, in the city of Belleville, the court held that the ordinance providing for said improvement was unreasonable, unjust and oppressive, and therefore void, and an order was entered in accordance with that finding. From this order an appeal was taken to this court.

The sole question decided by the trial court was the unreasonable and oppressive nature of the ordinance. All other matters ruled upon were incidental to the…