City of Peoria v. Ohl

This was a proceeding in the county court of Peoria county to confirm a special tax to pay for constructing a cement sidewalk upon one of the public streets of said city under the Local Improvement act of 1897, as amended in 1901. Objections to the confirmation of the special tax were filed by appellees as to their property, on the grounds that the Local Improvement act, as amended, is unconstitutional, and that no sufficient itemized estimate of the cost of the improvement was made by the engineer of the board of local improvements prior to the passage of the ordinance providing for the…