Brook v. City of Blue Mound

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Doster, O. J. :

Chapter 267, Laws of 1897 (Gen. Stat. 1897, ch. 41; Gen. Stat. 1899, §§ 7538-7545), authorizes district courts to vacate streets, alleys and other public reservations in cities, and to change the corporate boundaries of cities by the exclusion of unplatted farm lands therefrom. The title of the act reads as follows : “ An act providing for the vacation of streets, alleys, public reservations, and the changing of corporate boundaries of cities thereby, and repealing chapter 115a, General Statutes of 1889.”

The plaintiffs in error were the…