City of Champaign v. City of Champaign Township

Leave to appeal has been .granted in this cause to review a judgment of the Appellate Court which affirmed a finding by the circuit court of Champaign County that appellant, the city of Champaign, could not recover from appellee, City of Champaign Township, for hospital services furnished by a city-owned hospital to Robert Clay, a-resir dent of the city whom the complaint describes as a “medically indigent person.” (See: 17 Ill. App. 2d 449.) The boundaries of the city and township are coterminous, and at issue is the question of which governmental unit must bear the burden for such services.…