People Ex Rel. Clark v. Village of Wheeling

The Attorney General instituted this quo warranto action to test the legality of the annexation of a strip of the north-south toll road by the village of Wheeling. The superior court of Cook County held the annexation valid. The State is interested, and an appeal has been taken directly to this court. Ill. Rev. Stat. 1959, chap, no, par. 75.

The statutory provision on which the village relied for its authority to annex the property is section 7 — 8 of the Revised Cities and Villages Act, which read as follows: “Any municipality by ordinance may annex any territory contiguous to it even though…