Whittingham v. Village of Woodridge

MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE DAVIS

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal by the plaintiffs from an order dismissing Count I of their complaint which sought a declaratory judgment that an amendment to the zoning ordinance of the defendant municipality be declared unconstitutional. The trial court dismissed the complaint on the grounds that the plaintiffs were nonresidents of the defendant municipality and did not have the right or standing in court to contest the validity of its zoning ordinance.

Vincent and Sandra Russo owned approximately thirty acres of land in DuPage County,…