People ex rel. Groves v. Chicago & Alton Railroad

The city of Springfield and the town of Capital are co-extensive in territory, and in accordance with the statute of 1877 (Laws of 1877, p. 212,) the two municipal corporations have become, in a degree at least, united. This statute provides that at the request of the city the territory embraced within the limits of any incorporated city may by the county board be organized as a town, where the county has adopted township organization, and in such case the offices of city clerk and town clerk, and of city treasurer and town collector, may be consolidated and the election of highway…