Elm Lawn Cemetery Co. v. City of Northlake

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court of DuPage County declaring a certain ordinance of annexation null and void. Plaintiff, Elm Lawn Cemetery Company, an Illinois corporation, the owner of the tract of land in question, sought to have the court declare that the ordinance annexing its property was, in accordance with the terms of a certain preannexation agreement, null and void. City of Northlake, defendant, appeals from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff.

On October 29, 1964, plaintiff, defendant and County Line Industrial Development, Inc., an Illinois corporation…