City of Moline v. Greene

This is an appeal from a judgment of the county court of Rock Island county dismissing a petition of the city for a local improvement by special assessment. The special assessment was for the purpose of improving Fifth avenue, a street of said city running east and west, by widening it from 60 feet to 70 feet from Fifteenth street to Eighteenth street, and paving it. The widening was proposed to be done by taking a strip 10 feet wide from the property abutting upon the south side of the street. The Moline Public Library is situated at the south-east corner of Eifth avenue and Seventeenth…