Phillips v. Village of Northfield

This is an appeal from an order dismissing a petition filed under the provisions of section 7 — 42, chapter 24, of the Cities and Tillages Act, Illinois Bevised Statutes 1951 [Jones Ill. Stats. Ann. 21.1233], State Bar Edition, by the owners of approximately twenty-six acres, to disconnect their land from the Tillage of Northfield in Cook county. The pertinent part of section 7 — 42 provides in substance that the owners of any area of land consisting of one or more tracts lying within the corporate limits of any municipality, containing twenty or more acres, may have the area disconnected if…