People Ex Rel. Town of Richwoods v. City of Peoria

This is an appeal from a summary judgment entered in favor of the City of Peoria in a proceeding in quo warranto by which Relator and certain Intervenors to the petition (hereinafter called petitioners) challenged the right of that municipality to exercise authority over certain territories described as being within Medina, Richwoods, and Kickapoo townships. The city answered the petition with the assertion that its authority derives from certain annexation proceedings initiated by municipal ordinance No. 7864, made pursuant to Ill Rev Stats, c 24, § 7-1-2 et seq., and approved as valid by…