Job v. People ex rel. Tetherington

On the 10th day of August, 1897, the city council of the city of Alton adopted an ordinance providing for the construction of a sidewalk on Third street, from Cherry street to Shields street, in said city, the cost thereof to be paid by special taxation of the lots, blocks, tracts or parcels of land abutting upon the street, in proportion to their frontage. The appellants, Job and Ghessen, who owned a number of lots abutting on said proposed improvement, did not construct the walk provided for by the ordinance nor did they pay the cost thereof to the city, and the same was extended as a…