Union Drainage District Number One v. Purdy

Mr. JUSTICE RE CHE NM ACHER

delivered the opinion of the court:

Eight landowners (Mr. and Mrs. Harold Halfpenny, Dr. and Mrs. Robert Purdy, Mr. and Mrs. Archie Tuntland and Mr. and Mrs. Kurt Liebhaber) have appealed from an order of annexation entered March 22, 1974, by the circuit court of De Kalb County, and from an earlier order denying their motion to dismiss the petition of Union Drainage District Number One of the Towns of Afton and Clinton, De Kalb County, Illinois (District) to annex land outside the district. Each couple owns an agricultural parcel in the lands covered by the…