Village of Downers Grove v. Harley

On July 20, 1939, the county court of DuPage county entered an order dismissing a petition to refund six of ten installments of special assessment No. 123 of the village of Downers Grove, Illinois. The village had petitioned for confirmation of an ordinance authorizing the refunding of said installments under the provisions of section 86a of the Local Improvement act. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1939, chap. 24, par. 792a.) The village has prosecuted an appeal directly to this court.

In September, 1937, a petition by more than seventy-five per cent of the holders of defaulted special assessment bonds…