Hallett v. City of Elgin

This was a bill in chancery filed by the Standard Paving Company, an Illinois corporation organized for the purpose of putting in street improvements, and William F. Hallett and four other persons, who were tax-payers in the city of Elgin and who owned real estate abutting on the improvement on the north part of Spring street, in said city, against the city of Elgin, -its mayor, city clerk and city treasurer, and the McCarthy Improvement Company, to restrain said city of Elgin from entering into a contract for paving a part of North Spring street, in said city, under an award to said McCarthy…