White v. People ex rel. City of Bloomington

On March 22, 1878, the city council of Bloomington adopted an ordinance for the building of a sidewalk touching upon the line of the south end of lot 44, in Mason’s addition to the city of Bloomington, requiring that it should be paid for by special taxation of the lots touching upon the line of the sidewalk by levying the whole cost thereof upon the lots touching upon the line of the sidewalk in proportion to their frontage upon the sidewalk. That such owners should build the sidewalk as prescribed, within thirty days after the publication of the ordinance, and that in default thereof the…