Gleasman v. Greater Rockford Airport Authority

The plaintiffs, all of whom own land within the corporate limits of the Greater Rockford Airport Authority, in 1972 filed a petition in the circuit court seeking an order disconnecting their respective lands from the Authority. After some preliminary sldrmishes, the petition was amended to increase the number of plaintiffs to 100. The Authority moved to dismiss on the ground that, since all of said lands described were within the corporate limits of the Authority on the effective date of the Amendatory Act of 1963, the petition to disconnect them had to be (but was not) filed within one year…