Village of North Springfield v. City of Springfield

Citations

• 140 Ill. 165
• 29 N.E. 849

Syllabus

<p>Municipal cobpop,ations—annexation—election on different days in the different corporations. An election to determine the question of the annexation of a village with an adjoining city, is not required by law to be held in both municipalities on the same day, but the same may be held on different- days, if so fixed by the county court. So when the petition for the submission of the question of annexation was presented to the eounly judge on March 17, 1891, and the judge, three days later, ordered the election to be held on April 7,1891, in the city, which was the day fixed by law for the city election, and on April 21, 1891, in the village, which was the day of its municipal election, and a majority of the votes in both the city and village was in favor ofa annexation, it was held, that the election was valid, and that the annexation of the village was legal.</p>