Ownby v. City of Mattoon

This is a special assessment proceeding involving the spreading of an assessment under the Local Improvement act. On January 3, 1922, the board of local improvements of Mattoon, Illinois, held a meeting and adopted a resolution providing for the grading, draining, curbing, guttering, paving and otherwise improving Richmond avenue' from Twenty-first street to Thirty-third street. At the same meeting an itemized estimate of the cost of the proposed improvement was submitted by the city engineer to the board. Notice was given of a public hearing before the board, and such hearing was had on…