MOBIL OIL CORP. v. CITY OF ROCKFORD

No. 71-371.

8 Ill. App.3d 649 (1972)

290 N.E.2d 7

MOBIL OIL CORPORATION et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. THE CITY OF ROCKFORD et al., Defendants-Appellees — (DAYTON A. EKSTROM et al., Intervenors-Appellees.)

Appellate Court of Illinois — Second District.

Rehearing denied December 27, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martenson & Donohue, of Rockford, for appellants.

A. Curtis Washburn, Assistant City Attorney and William E. Collins, Legal Director, both of Rockford, for appellees.


Reversed and remanded.

Mr. JUSTICE THOMAS J. MORAN delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiffs applied to the City of Rockford for a rezoning of specific property, owned by the individual plaintiffs but optioned to the Mobil Oil Corporation, and requested that said Corporation be permitted to erect a gasoline station on such property. A committee of aldermen recommended the zoning change but the Council as a whole rejected the recommendation by a vote of...

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