Village of New Holland v. Holland
Appellate Court of Illinois
Mandamus, to disconnect territory. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Logan County; the Hon. John H. Moffett, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the May term, 1901.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
2Per curiam
At the September term, 1900, of the Logan County Circuit Court, appellee filed a petition for mandamus to compel appellants to pass an ordinance disconnecting certain territory within the boundary of New Holland, a village, in accordance with the disconnecting territory act of 1879. To the petition, appellants interposed a number of pleas, some of which set up that the territory sought to be disconnected did not lie upon the border of the village, because certain strips of land used by the public for travel, as roads and streets, intervened, and some set up that some of the territory…
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