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PEOPLE EX REL. CLARK v. VIL. OF WHEELING

No. 36650.

24 Ill.2d 267 (1962)

181 N.E.2d 72

THE PEOPLE ex rel. WILLIAM G. CLARK, Attorney General, Appellant, v. THE VILLAGE OF WHEELING et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Modified opinion filed March 14, 1962..

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

WILLIAM G. CLARK, Attorney General, of Springfield, (JAMES J. MEJDA, Assistant Attorney General, and FRANK S. RIGHEIMER, FRANK S. RIGHEIMER, JR., and DONALD M. PHARES, Special Assistant Attorneys General, of counsel,) for appellant.

ANCEL, SIEGEL & STONESIFER, of Chicago, (LOUIS ANCEL and JACK M. SIEGEL, of counsel,) for appellees.

Judgment reversed.

Mr. JUSTICE SCHAEFER delivered the opinion of the court:

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. 110, par. 75.

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