Skinner v. City of Eldorado

George Rose Smith, Justice.

The questions on this appeal are whether the three individual appellees, Briggs, Robertson, and McAteer, had sufficient standing to appeal to the circuit court from a county court order annexing certain territory to the city of El Dorado, and if so, whether their appeal was taken in a timely manner. The circuit court sustained the validity of the appeal and modified the county court’s annexation order in a manner that is not questioned on the merits.

The city, after an election, filed a petition in the county court for the annexation of certain territory. On January…