Wisconsin Supreme Court January 4, 1966 (Village of Elmwood Park v. City of Racine)

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Beilfuss, J.

The trial judge, Judge Elmer D. Good-land, filed a comprehensive, scholarly, and helpful memorandum opinion. He concluded that annexation and consolidation were separate and distinct statutory procedures intended to apply to dissimilar factual situations and that annexation was not intended by the legislature to encompass consolidation.