Holt v. City of East St. Louis

Citations

• 150 Ill. 530
• 37 N.E. 927

Syllabus

<p>1. Special taxation' — what is abutting property. It is no valid objection to a special tax to pay for grading or paving a street, that the city or village is not required to pay the cost of improving the street intersections. Streets crossing the one sought to be improved are not abutting lots.</p> <p>2. The object of special taxation is not to have each lot pay for the actual cost of what is done in front of it, but to have it pay its proportionate share of the whole cost of the improvement.</p>