State ex rel. Coleman v. City of Oakland

*785The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, C. J. :

This proceeding involves the sufficiency of certain preliminary steps taken in the attempted organization of a city of the third class. On January 18, 1904, and upon the petition of 368 electors of the town of Oakland, constituting a large majority of the electors residing therein, the board of county commissioners of Shawnee county ordered and declared Oakland to be incorporated as a city of the third class, and designated its boundaries. In pursuance of the order of the board an election was held within the city on February 3, 1904,…