PEOPEL EX REL. JORDAN CO. v. Village of Forest View

This is a quo warranto proceeding instituted in the circuit court of Cook County by certain property owners seeking to declare invalid an ordinance of the village of Forest View which purported to annex certain territory to that municipality. The contention of plaintiffs is that the annexation proceedings upon which the ordinance was based were fatally defective because the initiating petition was not signed by a majority of the electors residing in the territory sought to be annexed, as required by section 7 — 2 of the Revised Cities and Villages Act.

Section 7 — 2 of the Revised Cities and…