Village of Northbrook v. Sterba

On August 4, 1924, the president and board of trustees of the village of Northbrook, in Cook county, passed an ordinance for draining, grading, curbing and paving Shermer avenue, Shermerville road and Walters avenue between certain termini, except the central eighteen feet of parts of Shermer avenue and Shermerville road, for the grading and paving of which, the ordinance recites, the State of Illinois and the county of Cook had entered into a contract. A petition setting forth the passage of the ordinance and the approval of the estimate of the cost of the improvement and of the…