City of Hastings v. Hansen
Nebraska Supreme Court
Error from the district court of Adams county. Tried below before Beall, J. The power of the legislature over municipal boundaries is absolute and no inferior body has power to act, unless specially delegated by the legislature. (15 Am. & Eng. Ency. Law, 1002, 1003, 1023; Boone, Corporations, sec. 285; Dillon, Municipal Corporations [4th ed.], secs. 182, 183, 185; City of Wahoo v. Dickinson, 23 Neb., 430; Maddrey v. Cox, 11 S. W. Rep. [Tex.], 541.)
1Opinion of the Court
Ragan, C.
On the 28th day of May, 1892, Joseph H. Hansen brought suit in equity in the district court of Adams *705■county against the city of Hastings. In this petition he alleged, in substance, that he was the sole owner and occupant of a sixty-acre tract of land included within the corporate limits of said city, and situated upon the border and within the boundary of said city; that said land had been within said city limits since the year 1886; that no part of said tract of land had ever been laid out into lots; that said land was too remote to be of use for city residence lots, and could not…
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