In re Petition for Incorporation of Territory

This is a petition presented to the county judge by forty-seven petitioners to seek an election to organize a village from unorganized territory within the County of Winnebago, Illinois. Clyde R. Moore, a duly qualified elector and property owner within the boundaries of the proposed Village of Hickory Park, Illinois, filed a motion to dismiss the petition on the grounds that a previous petition and election had been defeated by a vote of fifty to fifty-four three days before the present petition had been filed in said county court. The motion to dismiss alleged that Section 3 — 14, Chap. 24,…