State ex rel. Claver v. Broute

This is an appeal from an order of the district court of Grand Porks county, which granted the prayer of the plaintiff petitioner, directing and commanding the city council of the city of Reynolds to grant the petition of Charles N. Ola ver “for the disconnection and exclusion of said land from the city limits,” and which commanded the city council of the city of Reynolds “to enact an ordinance disconnecting said lands from within the city limits.”

Proceedings in the trial court were upon certiorari. The appellants, on the oral argument, strenuously contend that certiorari does not lie, and…