In Re Incorporation of Avon Lake

Thompson, J.-

This appeal arises because of a judgment of the district court upon a petition for the incorporation of a proposed municipality to be known as tbe Town of Avon Lake. The trial court held that chapter 180 of the Acts of the Fifty-seventh General Assembly, an amendment to section 362.1 of the Code of 1954, prevented it taking further action upon a pending petition for incorporation, and entered its judgment dismissing the petition. It is the contention of the appellants that since the petition was filed before July 4, 1957, the effective date of the Act, the court was bound to…