189 N.E. 872 | Ill. | 1934
The subject matter of this litigation was before this court on a previous occasion. (Village of Elmwood Park v. Black Co.
By permission of this court plaintiffs in error have filed the record in the former appeal as a return to the writ. Each of the assignments of error is identical with a former assignment on appeal. Defendant in error J.H. Pettie having succeeded to the interests of Mills Sons, objectors in the trial court, was substituted for their trustee in bankruptcy and has filed a motion to dismiss the writ of error. The grounds for the motion are (1) that plaintiffs in error have not such interest in the subject matter as entitles them to maintain the writ; and (2) that the record presents no question reviewable by this court. The motion was taken with the case.
Section 23 of the Mechanic's Lien act (Smith's Stat. 1933, par. 23, p. 1798,) provides that any person furnishing material or labor to any contractor having a contract for a public improvement for any county, township, school district, city or municipality, shall have a lien on the money, bonds or warrants due or to become due thereunder to the contractor, provided such person shall notify the proper officials of his claim by written notice. It is not disputed that plaintiffs in error perfected their lien on the amount due and unpaid to the contractor.
The interested and proper parties to the determination of the facts set forth in the certificate of cost and completion under section 84 are property owners affected by an assessment, the contractor who may be the owner and holder of bonds and vouchers issued under the contract, and persons who have rights to be protected in the determination of the amount required for the payment of the work done under the contract. (WilmetteState Bank v. City of Des Plaines,
Plaintiffs in error claim that this court has jurisdiction to review the judgment entered under section 84 of the Local Improvement act because the trial court mistakenly limited its jurisdiction through a misconstruction of the ordinance. In theBlack case, supra, after reviewing and considering the former decisions of this court, we disposed of all questions relating to the trial court's authority to construe the ordinance and whether or not the improvement conformed thereto. We held that those questions were questions of fact concerning the items of cost of the improvement and are within the limitation of conclusiveness fixed by section 84. The reasons and authority for that holding are set forth in the opinion in the Blackcase, and it would serve no good purpose to repeat them here. The ruling in that case disposes of the question.
It is suggested that this court should take jurisdiction because the order provides for a pro rata distribution of the amount rebated and that such distribution is upon the wrong basis. No showing is made in support of this contention and it cannot be considered.
Plaintiffs in error claim that the statutory inhibition in section 84 against appeal is unconstitutional, and that this question gives this court jurisdiction. Some controversy exists between the parties as to how and when this question was attempted to be raised, but that is unimportant in this case. In People v. Cohen,
The record presents no reviewable question. The motion to dismiss the writ is therefore allowed, and the writ of error is dismissed.
Writ dismissed.