DeSutter v. South Moline Township Board

The plaintiff taxpayers filed a suit in the circuit court of Rock Island County challenging the right of South Moline Township to pay lump sum expenses to certain officials of South Moline Township. The case was heard on a stipulation of facts in a nonjury trial. The trial court found the allowance to be unconstitutional, and the individual defendants were ordered to make reimbursement for allowances received in excess of actual expenditures, and this appeal ensued.

The scenario of events which must be considered by this court are set forth in the stipulation of facts, the pertinent part of…