Legal Opinion
City of the Colony v. City of Frisco
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided March 7, 1985No. 2-84-047-CVPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ASHWORTH, Justice.
City of The Colony, Texas (Colony) appealed from a judgment declaring an annexation ordinance of the City of Frisco, Texas (Frisco) had been validated by a validation statute.
Judgment affirmed.
In 1966 the City of Frisco, Denton County, had a population of less than 5,000. That year Frisco passed its Ordinance 179 which is the primary issue in this case. Such ordinance annexed a strip ten feet in width along the center line of highways surrounding Frisco. The area included in the annexed strips was approximately 87 square miles while Frisco as it then existed had an…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- City of Waco v. City of McGregorTexas Supreme Court · 1975
3Cited by4 opinions
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- Donaldson v. Lane County Local Government Boundary CommissionCourt of Appeals of Oregon · 1989
- Town of Fairview v. City of McKinney, Texas Court of Appeals, 5th District (Dallas)2008