Sulzberger v. County of Peoria

This appeal was taken by the defendant, the county of Peoriaj from a decree of the circuit court of Peoria County holding the county zoning ordinance of Peoria County to be unconstitutional as applied to plaintiffs’ property. The county here argues that the zoning ordinance, as applied to plaintiffs’ property, is a reasonable and valid exercise of the police power of the county; that plaintiffs failed to discharge their burden of showing the ordinance to be arbitrary and unreasonable; that a fair difference of opinion as to the reasonableness of the ordinance prevails and that the judgment of…