Kolar v. City of LaPorte

In September, 1961, the appellee, City of LaPorte, duly enacted and adopted a special ordinance, numbered 1138, to annex a large tract of contiguous territory. Allegedly as a majority of the owners of land in the said territory or owners of more than seventy-five (75) per cent in assessed valuation of the real estate in the territory, the appellants filed in the LaPorte Circuit Court their remonstrance against the annexation, pursuant to the provisions of the Acts 1905, ch. 129, §243, as amended in 1935, 1949 and 1955, being §48-702, Burns’ 1963 Replacement. Therewith appellants moved the…