City of Peru v. Bartels

The city council of the city of Peru passed an ordinance for the improvement of a portion of Peoria street by, grading, curbing with concrete curb and paving with brick, and provided that twenty-three per cent of the entire cost of the improvement should be paid by the city by. general taxation and seventy-seven per cent should be paid by special taxation of the lots, tracts and parcels of land touching upon, abutting and contiguous to the improvement, according to frontage. In pursuance of the ordinance a petition was filed in the county court of LaSalle county, and a special tax was…