Village of Elmwood Park v. City of Racine

The trial judge, Judge Elmer D. Good-land, filed a comprehensive, scholarly, and helpful memorandum opinion. He concluded that annexation and consolidation were separate and distinct statutory procedures intended to apply to dissimilar factual situations and that annexation was not intended by the legislature to encompass consolidation.

The dispute before us arises by virtue of conflicting interpretations of the consolidation and annexation statutes.

The legislature in its 1959 session made substantial changes in the statutory law governing the overall problem of municipal incorporation and…