Murray v. City of Virginia

Citations

• 91 Ill. 558

Syllabus

<p>1. Boundaries of cities and villages—extending the same to embrace contiguous lands—construction of a special charter. Where an incorporated town, embracing about forty acres nearly in the center of a section of land, had its boundaries extended by a special charter so as to include one mile square, which charter provided that “ whenever a tract of land adjoining said town” should “be at any time laid off or sub-divided into town lots and recorded as an addition to said town, such tract ” should become a part of said town and within the corporate limits thereof, and subject to all the provisions of the act, it was heldt that the words “land adjoining” meant land adjoining the town as incorporated by the charter, and were not confined to an addition to the original town plat within the square mile.</p> <p>2. Where the charter of a town fixing its boundaries one mile square and providing that any addition thereto, when the plat should be recorded, should become a part of the town and within its corporate limits, and subject to all the provisions of the act, further provided that the territory of the town, as fixed by the act, should be an election precinct, and school district for the purposes of the act, and for no other purpose, it was held, that when an addition was made, the new territory was within the corporate limits for voting and school purposes.</p> <p>3. Same—mode of annexing territory under general law. Under the general law relating to cities and villages, contiguous territory may be annexed thereto by ordinance and filing a copy of the ordinance, with a map of the territory annexed, in the office of the recorder of deeds and having the same recorded. Without such ordinance no territory can be annexed. The approval of a plat of an addition by the council and granting a permit to record the same, will not be sufficient to bring the addition within the corporate limits.</p>