Town of Jefferson v. People ex rel. Campbell

Citations

• 87 Ill. 503

Syllabus

<p>1. Township system—law governing on change of town or forming new one. The act of March 4, 1874, revising the township laws and amending the same in respect to creating new towns, and prohibiting the creation of any new town of less territory than seventeen square miles, repealed the old law on the subject, and the board of supervisors thereafter were bound to act in conformity with the new law, even though the petition for the formation of a new town had been filed before the passage of the amendatory act.</p> <p>2. Same—as to territorial extent of new towns—and what are new towns. Under the township law prohibiting the creation of a new town by the county board, of less territory than seventeen square miles, where a town is divided, each part of the two towns resulting from the division must contain the requisite territory. In such case, both the towns become new ones formed from the old one.</p>