Trustees of Bazetta Township v. City of Warren

This is an appeal from a -judgment of the Court of Common Pleas. The facts áre not in dispute. A petition for annexation to the city of' Warren of approximately 1,060 acres of land in the unincorporated portions of Trumbull County was presented to the board of county commissioners on July 22, 1974. The petition was signed by a majority of the fifty-seven property owners within the territory which was the subject of the petition; The prescribed public hearing was advertised for October 17, 1974, by the board of commissioners and notices of the filing of the petition and the date of the public…