Spielman v. County of Rock Island

This is an appeal by intervenors and defendants Deere & Company, the Saelens, and the Vande Geests (hereinafter intervenors) from the decision of the circuit court in plaintiff R. C. Spielman’s declaratory judgment action concerning the zoning of certain Rock Island County property owned by him.

The county, though a defendant, took no appeal from the court’s action. The circuit court ruled that Spielman’s property had been validly and properly zoned to a C-3 (commercial) classification by the Rock Island Board of Supervisors in October 1973! It also ruled that no subsequent action taken by the…