People ex rel. Scheuber v. Nibbe

Citations

• 150 Ill. 269
• 37 N.E. 217

Syllabus

<p>1. Drainage district — may include a village. A drainage district organized under the Farm Drainage act may include within its limits a part of the territory of a village already organized under the general law relating to cities and villages.</p> <p>2. It can not be doubted that the legislature has the power to authorize the organization of municipal corporations for one purpose, embracing territory situated wholly or partly within the boundaries of another municipal corporation already organized for another purpose.</p> <p>3. Section 11 and subsequent sections of the Farm Drainage act, which provide for the formation of districts for combined drainage out of territory lying within a single town, merely provide that the territory to be embraced in the proposed district shall lie within one town. Those sections are sufficiently broad to embrace any and all contiguous territory within a town which is so circumstanced as to require a combined system of drainage for agricultural or sanitary purposes, irrespective of whether any portion of it is already included within the boundaries of a pre-existing municipal corporation or not.</p>