Quick v. Industrial Com‪.‬

This appeal is the culmination of long and bitter litigation between two thriving municipalities; Village of Northbrook (Northbrook) and City of Highland Park (Highland Park). Their legal battle rivals in intensity, although not quite in duration, the internecine strife among the ancient Greek city states. Northbrook Court Associates (Intervenor), owner of certain of the real estate here involved, has joined the fray by intervention. Northbrook commenced these proceedings by filing in the circuit court of Cook County, with leave obtained from that court, a complaint in quo warrantor, challenging the validity of a previous annexation by Highland Park of three parcels of real estate in Cook County abutting and directly south of Lake Cook Road. The trial court entered judgment of ouster against Highland Park, which appeals.